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