1999 in Russia
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- President: Boris Yeltsin (until 31 December), Vladimir Putin (from 31 December, acting President)
- Prime Minister:
- until 12 May: Yevgeny Primakov
- 12 May - 9 August: Sergei Stepashin
- starting 9 August: Vladimir Putin
- Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev
Events
March
- March 19 — 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing[1]
June
- June — Exercise Zapad-99
August
- August — Invasion of Dagestan
September
- September — Russian apartment bombings
October
- October 7 — Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack
- October 21 — Grozny ballistic missile attack
- October 29 — Baku–Rostov highway bombing
December
- December — Alkhan-Yurt massacre[2]
- December 3 — 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting[3]
- December 19 — 1999 Russian legislative election
Births
- June 1 — Dmitri Aliev, figure skater
- June 17 — Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player
Deaths
January
- January 7 — Viktor Sobolev, astrophysicist (b. 1915)
- January 8 — Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, film actress (b. 1931)
- January 24 — Elena Dobronravova, actress (b. 1932)
- January 28 — Valery Gavrilin, composer (b. 1939)
- January 29 — Vladimir Kirillin, physicist (b. 1913)
- January 30 — Svetlana Savyolova, film and stage actress (b. 1942)
February
- February 11 — Nikolai Sergeyev, fleet admiral (b. 1909)
- February 18 — Nikolay Latyshev, referee (b. 1913)
March
- March 20 — Igor Vladimirov, film and theater actor and director (b. 1919)
- March 30 — Igor Netto, footballer (b. 1930)
- March 31
- Aleksandr Filatov, alpine skier (b. 1928)
- Yuri Knorozov, linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer (b. 1922)
April
- April 4 — Vladimir Orlov, 14th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (b. 1921)
- April 27 — Pavel Klushantsev, cameraman, film director, producer, screenwriter and author (b. 1910)
May
- May 2 — Igor M. Diakonoff, historian, linguist and translator (b. 1915)
- May 31 — Anatoli Ivanov, writer (b. 1928)
June
- June 4 — Yuri Vasilyev, stage and film actor (b. 1939)
- June 6 — Ilya Musin, conductor (b. 1904)
- June 7 — Victor Otiev, painter and graphic artist (b. 1935)
- June 12 — Sergey Khlebnikov, Olympic speed skater (b. 1955)
- June 15 — Igor Kholin, poet and fiction writer (b. 1920)
- June 25 — Yevgeny Morgunov, actor, film director and script writer (b. 1927)
- June 26 — Muza Krepkogorskaya, theater and film actress (b. 1924)
- June 28 — Anatoliy Zheglanov, ski jumper (b. 1946)
July
- July 2 — Viktor Chebrikov, 6th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1923)
- July 3
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, applied mathematician (b. 1899)
- Igor Belsky, ballet dancer (b. 1925)
- July 13 — Yevgeny Goryansky, football striker and coach (b. 1929)
- July 14 — Umyar Mavlikhanov, fencer (b. 1937)
- July 22 — Gennadiy Agapov, race walker (b. 1933)
- July 23 — Dmitri Tertyshny, ice hockey defenceman (b. 1976)
- July 25 — Natalia Androsova, last member of the House of Romanov (b. 1917)
- July 27 — Aleksandr Aleksandrov, mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
- July 28
- Maxim Munzuk, Tuvan actor (b. 1910)
- Georgy Rerberg, cinematographer (b. 1937)
August
- August 5 — Rimma Zhukova, speed skater (b. 1925)
- August 9 — Yuri Volyntsev, stage and film actor (b. 1932)
- August 12 — Pavel Arsenov, film actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1936)
- August 21 — Yevgeni Yeliseyev, football player and coach (b. 1908)
- August 22 — Aleksandr Demyanenko, film and theater actor (b. 1937)
September
- September 5 — Leonid Sedov, physicist (b. 1907)
- September 8
- Lev Razgon, journalist (b. 1908)
- Vladimir Samoilov, film and theater actor (b. 1924)
- September 15 — Petr Shelokhonov, actor, director, filmmaker and socialite (b. 1929)
- September 18 — Viktor Safronov, astronomer (b. 1917)
- September 20 — Raisa Gorbacheva, First Lady of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
- September 22 — Vasili Trofimov, football player (b. 1919)
- September 25 — Anna Shchetinina, merchant marine sailor (b. 1908)
- September 30
- Nikolay Annenkov, actor (b. 1899)
- Dmitry Likhachev, medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor (b. 1906)
October
- October 7 — Genrikh Sapgir, writer (b. 1928)
- October 11 — Galina Bystrova, athlete (b. 1934)
- October 21 — Gennady Vasilyev, film director (b. 1940)
November
- November 8 — Yuri Malyshev, cosmonaut (b. 1941)
- November 18
- Ivan Frolov, philosopher (b. 1929)
- Yevgeni Belosheikin, ice hockey player (b. 1966)
- November 20 — Yuri Chesnokov, football player (b. 1952)
December
- December 1 — Alexander Tatarenko, painter and art teacher (b. 1925)
- December 2 — Vladimir Kravtsov, handball player (b. 1949)
- December 3 — Boris Kuznetsov, footballer (b. 1928)
- December 9 — Yakov Rylsky, sabre fencer and olympic champion (b. 1928)
- December 21 — Sergey Nagovitsyn, singer (b. 1968)
- December 23
- Timur Gaidar, rear admiral, writer and journalist (b. 1926)
- Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
- December 26 — Ivan Yakovlev, statesman (b. 1910)
