1994 in Russia
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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[1]
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[2]
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 Supreme Soviet of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1909)
