1883 in Russia

Events from 1883 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III

Events

• Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (completed)
• Emancipation of Labour
• Hugo Treffner Gymnasium
• Moscow Society of Stamp Collectors

Births

• 10 January - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1945)
• 3 April - Nikolai Kuzmin, Soviet political and military leader (d. 1938)
• 25 April - Semyon Budyonny, Cossack cavalryman, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1973)
• 18 July - Lev Kamenev, Russian revolutionary (d. 1936)
• 19 August - Leonid Kulik, Russian mineralogist (d. 1942)
• 14 November - Ado Birk, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
• 29 November - Lev Galler, Soviet admiral (d. 1950)
• 16 December - Vasili Altfater, Russian and Soviet admiral (d. 1919)
• Ivan Bardin, Soviet metallurgist

Deaths

• Pyotr Pavlovich Albedinsky
• Alexander Gorchakov

References