1889 in Russia

Events from the year 1889 in Russia.

Incumbents

2 February – Vasily Struve, historian, a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family
24 February – Aleksei Dikiy, historian, actor and director
28 February – Pavel Dybenko, a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander
19 March – Boris Gerasimovich, a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist
20 March – Alexander Vertinsky, historian, a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor
14 October – Natalia Martirosyan, engineer
25 November – Yan Berzin, politician and military intelligence officer

22 April – Vasily Kokorev, one of the wealthiest men in Russia, entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector
7 May – Dmitry Tolstoy, a politician and a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia
10 May – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century
20 August – Andrey Krayevsky, publisher and journalist
29 October – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, a literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher
8 November – Nadezhda Sigida, a Russian revolutionary, heroine of the Kara katorga tragedy of 1889