1906 in Russia
Events from the year 1906 in Russia.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Nicholas II
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers –
- * until 5 May – Sergei Witte
- * 5 May–21 July – Ivan Logginovich Goremykin
- * starting 21 July – Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin
- *Pyotr Stolypin, Russian prime minister from 1906 to 1911.
Events
- Russian Constitution of 1906
- 1906 Russian legislative election
- Markovo Republic
- Białystok pogrom
- Bloody Wednesday (Poland)
- Siedlce pogrom
- Vyborg Manifesto
Births
- 3 January – Ulyana Barkova, Russian farm worker
- 21 January – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer.
- 7 February – Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer.
- 1 April – Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer.
- 3 May – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer
- 4 June – Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist.
- 17 June – Olli Ungvere, Estonian actress
- 5 August – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 8 September – Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician
- 25 September – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and pianist.
- 19 December – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician.
Deaths
- June 14 – Sophia Amirajibi, Georgian poetry translator