1908 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Nicholas II
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin

Events

• 1908 World Figure Skating Championships
• Bezdany raid
• 1908 bombardment of the Majlis
• Russian Empire at the 1908 Summer Olympics
• Tunguska event

Births

• 22 January – Lev Landau, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 30 May – Marina Semyonova, ballerina
• 20 June – Vasily Larin, Soviet general
• 3 September – Lev Pontryagin, mathematician
• 18 September – Viktor Ambartsumian, Soviet Armenian scientist
• 30 September – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
• 23 October – Ilya Frank, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 30 October – Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Army officer, Minister of Defense

Deaths