1996 in Russia

Events from the year 1996 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev (until 17 July), Mikhail Kolesnikov (until 17 July), Igor Rodionov

Events

January

• January 9–18 — Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis

April

• April 16 — Shatoy ambush

June

• June 16 — The first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.

July

• July 3 — The second round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.

August

• August 6–20 — Battle of Grozny (August 1996)
• August 30 — The Khasavyurt Accord is signed.

November

• November 11 — Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing

December

• December 24 — The Bion No.11 spacecraft is launched.

Births

• February 11 — Daniil Medvedev, tennis player
• March 16 — Anna Ovcharova, Russian/Swiss figure skater
• March 19 — Feodosiy Efremenkov, figure skater
• April 2 — Polina Agafonova, figure skater
• April 12 — Elizaveta Kulichkova, tennis player
• April 14 — Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, archer
• May 22 — Aleksandr Ageyev, footballer
• November 23 — Lana, singer

Deaths

January

• January 1 — Sergei Yakovlev, actor (b. 1925)
• January 12 — Joseph Kuzmin, 10th First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1910)
• January 25 — Yuri Levitansky, poet and translator (b. 1922)
• January 27
• Vsevolod Sanayev, actor (b. 1912)
• Vyacheslav Lemeshev, Olympic boxer (b. 1952)

February

• February 1 — Sergey Aganov, Marshal of Engineer Troops (b. 1917)
• February 7
• Lydia Chukovskaya, writer, poet, editor, publicist and dissident (b. 1907)
• Boris Tchaikovsky, composer (b. 1925)
• February 17 — Nikolai Starostin, footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• February 20 — Viktor Konovalenko, ice hockey goaltender (b. 1938)
• February 24 — Anna Larina, writer and third wife of Nikolai Bukharin (b. 1914)

March

• March 5 — Galina Kravchenko, actress (b. 1905)
• March 21 — Nikolai Usenko, Red Army soldier (b. 1924)
• March 29 — Ivan Kalita, equestrian (b. 1927)

April

• April 12 — Igor Ternov, theoretical physicist (b. 1921)
• April 21 — Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen politician (b. 1944)
• April 22 — Serafim Subbotin, flying ace (b. 1921)

May

• May 21 — Vladimir Belyakov, gymnast (b. 1918)
• May 23 — Kronid Lyubarsky, human rights activist (b. 1934)
• May 25 — Vladimir Ukhov, racewalking athlete (b. 1924)

June

• June 10 — Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, fencer (b. 1954)
• June 14 — Alexander Knyazhinsky, cinematographer (b. 1936)
• June 18 — Rif Saitgareev, speedway rider (b. 1960)
• June 29 — Dmitri Pokrovsky, musician (b. 1944)

July

• July 6 — Evgeni Rogov, football player and manager (b. 1929)
• July 9 — Sergey Kuryokhin, composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer (b. 1954)
• July 16 — Iosif Prut, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1900)

August

• August 2
• Aleksandr Nudelman, weapon designer and researcher (b. 1912)
• Sergey Golovkin, serial killer and rapist (b. 1959)
• August 4 — Lev Lemke, actor (b. 1931)
• August 19 — Tatyana Mavrina, painter and children's writer (b. 1902)
• August 24
• Zainab Biisheva, writer (b. 1908)
• Lev Vlassenko, pianist and teacher (b. 1928)
• August 26 — Nikolai Baskakov, Turkologist (b. 1905)
• August 28 — Gevork Kotiantz, painter (b. 1909)
• August 29 — Kirill Yevstigneyev, fighter pilot (b. 1917)

September

• September 2 — Aleksandr Markin, football player (b. 1949)
• September 3
• Veniamin Basner, composer (b. 1925)
• Valeri Kravchenko, volleyball player (b. 1939)
• September 7 — Vyacheslav Solovyov, football player and coach (b. 1925)
• September 8 — Semyon Aranovich, film director (b. 1934)
• September 24 — Pavel Sudoplatov, lieutenant general and spy (b. 1907)
• September 28 — Andrei Suraikin, figure skater (b. 1948)

October

• October 6 — Vladimir Yerokhin, football player (b. 1930)
• October 12 — Nina Alisova, theater and film actress (b. 1915)
• October 18 — Simon Soloveychik, publicist, educator and social philosopher (b. 1930)
• October 20 — Yuri Neprintsev, painter, graphic artist and art teacher (b. 1909)

November

• November 3 — Paul Tatum, Russian-American businessman (b. 1955)
• November 4 — Konstantin Loktev, ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• November 6 — Vadim Ivanov, football player and coach (b. 1943)
• November 10 — Imam Alimsultanov, Chechen bard and folk singer (b. 1957)
• November 18 — Zinovy Gerdt, actor (b. 1916)
• November 24 — Edison Denisov, composer (b. 1929)

December

• December 18 — Yulii Khariton, physicist (b. 1904)
• December 29 — Vasily Mykhlik, pilot (b. 1922)
• December 30 — Lev Oshanin, poet, playwright and writer (b. 1912)

References