1900	Born 29 July/11 August in Kiev
1904	Family moves to Moscow
1918-20	Fights in Civil War; wounded twice; Order of the Red Banner
1921	Private lessons with Glier Enters Moscow Conservatoire
1921-5	Studies under Glier and Myaskovsky
1923	First Piano Sonata Opus 3
1923-4	Second Piano Sonata Opus 4
1924	Third Piano Sonata Opus 6 (lost)
	Legend for cello and piano
1925	Sphinx cantata (lost)
	Fourth Piano Sonata Opus 11
	Fifth Piano Sonata Opus 12
1926	Clarinet Trio
	First String Quartet
	2 Nocturnes for piano
	3 Children's Scenes Opus 18, for soprano and piano
	4 Newspaper Advertisements Opus 21, for soprano and piano
1926-8	Steel ballet (includes Zavod/The Iron Foundry)
1927	Russian secr of International Society for Contemporary Music
	The Hero opera
	First Piano Concerto
1928	Symphony (without number), Opus 20 (lost)
	Viola Sonata (lost)
	Dance Suite for piano trio (lost)
1929	Turkmenian Nights for piano
	Declared an enemy of the People; all works banned
1930	The Dam opera
1932	Second Piano Concerto
1936	Expelled from Composers' Union
	Turkmen Suite for orchestra
	Uzbek Suite for orchestra
1937	Leaves Moscow; travels in Central Asia, studying folk music
1939	Harp Concerto
1940	M I Kalinin oratorio
1940-2	Masquerade opera
1941	The Signal opera (lost)
1942	Second String Quartet
1943	The Ukraine vocal-orchestral poem
1944	Symphony (without number) in E major
1946	Second Symphony in C major
	Cello Concerto
	Cello Sonatina
1947	Glory to the Red Army oratorio
1948	Criticised by Khrennikov
1949-50	Song-Symphony in B major, Symphonic Pictures from the Life of the Kuban Cossack Collective Farmers
1956	Russian Overture for orchestra
1958-9	Symphony (without number) in C major
	Third Symphony in A minor, Four Poems about Virgin Lands
1960	Hello, New Harvest cantata
1960	Fifth Symphony in E minor
1967	Glory to Moscow oratorio
1970	People's Oratorio about Kotovsky
1973	Dies 11 July in Moscow