1994 in Russia

Events from the year 1994 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev

Events

January

• January 3 — Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes, killing all 124 people on board.
• January 12–15 — United States – Russia mutual detargeting

March

• March 23 — Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Southern Siberia, killing all 75 people on board.

September

• September 9 — The Eurasian Patent Convention is signed.

October

• October 17–20 — State visit by Elizabeth II to Russia

November

• November 26 — Battle of Grozny (November 1994)

December

• December 5 — The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances was signed in Budapest. It included security assurances against threats against the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
• December 12 — Battle of Dolinskoye
• December 28 — Battle of Khankala

Births

• September 1
• Margarita Gasparyan, tennis player
• Anna Smolina, tennis player
• September 30 — Aliya Mustafina, artistic gymnast

Deaths

January

• January 2 — Viktor Aristov, film director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• January 10 — Roman Tkachuk, theatre and film actor (b. 1932)
• January 17 — Yevgeny Ivanov, spy (b. 1926)
• January 20 — Vitālijs Rubenis, 8th Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities (b. 1914)
• January 23
• Nikolai Ogarkov, military officer (b. 1917)
• Alexei Mozhaev, painter, graphic artist and art teacher (b. 1918)
• January 26 — Ales Adamovich, writer, critic and academic (b. 1927)
• January 27
• Sergei Scherbakov, welterweight boxer (b. 1918)
• Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, astrophysicist (b. 1904)
• January 29 — Yevgeny Leonov, actor (b. 1926)

February

• February 1 — Sergei Dubov, journalist, publisher and entrepreneur (b. 1943)
• February 3
• Anatoly Alexandrov, physicist (b. 1903)
• Georgy Shchedrovitsky, philosopher and methodologist (b. 1929)
• February 4 — Mikhail Linge, middle-distance runner and Olympic champion (b. 1958)
• February 10 — Augusts Voss, 3rd First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia (b. 1916)
• February 14 — Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer (b. 1936)
• February 17 — Aleksandr Chakovsky, editor and novelist (b. 1913)
• February 19
• Fyodor Odinokov, actor (b. 1913)
• Ivan Sidorenko, Red Army officer (b. 1919)
• February 20 — Vladimir Druzhnikov, actor (b. 1922)
• February 21 — Evgeny Belyaev, tenor (b. 1926)

March

• March 2 — Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, pilot and navigator (b. 1920)
• March 8 — Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, memoirist and Gulag prisoner (b. 1908)
• March 23 — Valentina Vladimirova, actress (b. 1927)

April

• April 1 — Gennady Voronov, 15th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1910)
• April 10 — Viktor Afanasyev, journalist and professor of philosophy (b. 1922)
• April 13 — Nikolai Kryuchkov, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
• April 16 — Victor Popov, theoretical physicist (b. 1937)
• April 19 — Taisia Afonina, painter and watercolorist (b. 1913)
• April 26 — Andrey Aizderdzis, politician (b. 1958)
• April 28 — Oleg Borisov, stage and film actor (b. 1929)

May

• May 3 — Vladimir Kostin, basketball referee (b. 1921)
• May 11 — Nikolay Fyodorov, animator, director, writer and cartoonist (b. 1914)
• May 13 — Vladimir Antoshin, chess Grandmaster (b. 1929)

June

• June 4 — Anatoli Vasiliev, realist painter (b. 1917)
• June 5 — Nikolay Dementyev, football striker and coach (b. 1915)
• June 7 — Anatoly Dorodnitsyn, mathematician (b. 1910)
• June 17
• Boris Aleksandrov, composer (b. 1905)
• Leonid Baykov, painter (b. 1919)
• Yuri Nagibin, writer, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1920)
• June 22 — Ilya Frez, film director (b. 1909)
• June 24 — Vecheslav Zagonek, painter (b. 1919)
• June 25 — Matvey Shaposhnikov, military commander (b. 1906)

July

• July 7 — Anna Kostrova, realist painter, graphic artist and book illustrator (b. 1909)
• July 27 — Eduard Kolmanovsky, composer (b. 1923)

August

• August 1 — Valery Yardy, road cyclist (b. 1948)
• August 3 — Innokenty Smoktunovsky, stage and film actor (b. 1925)
• August 8 — Leonid Leonov, novelist and playwright (b. 1899)
• August 10 — Vladimir Melanin, biathlete (b. 1933)
• August 11 — Stanislav Chekan, actor (b. 1922)
• August 13 — Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player (b. 1926)
• August 19 — Robert Rozhdestvensky, poet and songwriter (b. 1932)
• August 26 — Vladimir Burich, poet (b. 1932)

September

• September 10 — Yevgeny Dolmatovsky, poet and lyricist (b. 1915)
• September 12 — Boris Yegorov, physician and cosmonaut (b. 1937)
• September 17 — Vladimir Gershuni, dissident and poet (b. 1930)
• September 22 — Igor Chislenko, association football player (b. 1939)
• September 24 — Mark Prudkin, stage and film actor (b. 1898)

October

• October 7
• Piotr Alberti, painter (b. 1913)
• Maya Bulgakova, actress (b. 1932)
• October 9 — Nikolai Karetnikov, composer (b. 1930)
• October 14 — Nikolai Skomorokhov, flying ace (b. 1920)
• October 17 — Dmitry Kholodov, journalist (b. 1967)
• October 20 — Sergei Bondarchuk, actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• October 24 — Alexander Shelepin, 2nd Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1918)

November

• November 1 — Moisey Markov, physicist (b. 1908)
• November 5 — Albert Shesternyov, football player and manager (b. 1941)
• November 6 — Vladimir Zagorovsky, chess grandmaster (b. 1925)
• November 13 — Vladimir Ivashko, Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
• November 24 — Aleksandr Gusev, field hockey player (b. 1955)
• November 27 — Rufina Nifontova, stage and film actress (b. 1931)

December

• December 11 — Yuli Raizman, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue (b. 1903)
• December 13 — Olga Rubtsova, chess player (b. 1909)
• December 19
• Vera Chaplina, children's literature writer and naturalist (b. 1908)
• Vadim Kozin, tenor and songwriter (b. 1903)
• December 24 — Alexander Uvarov, ice hockey player (b. 1922)
• December 28 — Georgy Baydukov, test pilot, writer and hunter (b. 1907)
• December 30
• Dimitri Ivanenko, theoretical physicist (b. 1904)
• Andrei Kuznetsov, volleyball player (b. 1966)

Date unknown

• Gunsyn Tsydenova, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1909)

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