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