1906 in Russia
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Events from the year 1906 in Russia.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Nicholas II
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers â
- until 5 May â Sergei Witte
- 5 Mayâ21 July â Ivan Logginovich Goremykin
- starting 21 July â Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin
- Pyotr Stolypin, Russian prime minister from 1906 to 1911.[1][2]
Events
Births
- 3 January â Ulyana Barkova, Russian farm worker (d. 1991)[3]
- 21 January â Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007).
- 7 February â Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984).
- 1 April â Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989).
- 3 May â Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
- 4 June â Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990).
- 17 June â Olli Ungvere, Estonian actress (d. 1991)
- 5 August â Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999).
- 8 September â Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990)
- 25 September â Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1975).
- 19 December â Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (d. 1982).
Deaths
- June 14 â Sophia Amirajibi, Georgian poetry translator (b. 1847)
