1908 in Russia
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Events from the year 1908 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 22 January – Lev Landau, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
- 30 May – Marina Semyonova, ballerina (died 2010)
- 20 June – Vasily Larin, Soviet general (died 1957)
- 3 September – Lev Pontryagin, mathematician (died 1988)[1]
- 18 September – Viktor Ambartsumian, Soviet Armenian scientist (died 1996)[2]
- 30 September – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (died 1974)
- 23 October – Ilya Frank, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)
- 30 October – Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Army officer, Minister of Defense (died 1984)
