1993 in Russia

Events from the year 1993 in Russia.

Incumbents

President: Boris Yeltsin
Vice President: Alexander Rutskoy
Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev
Minister of Internal Affairs: Viktor Yerin
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation: Ruslan Khasbulatov

Events

January

January 25 - The Russian space station Mir boasts the first art exhibition in outer space.

April

April 25 - 1993 Russian government referendum

September

September 21-October 4 - 1993 Russian constitutional crisis

October

October-November - Yeltsin sends troops to seize Parliament from his opponents.

December

December 12 - 1993 Russian constitutional referendum

Births

January 2 - Kirill Minov, ice dancer
May 1 - Anastasia Belyakova, boxer

Deaths

January 24 — Sergei Zakharov, painter
January 28 — Anatoly Parfyonov, Greco-Roman wrestler
February 11 — Oksana Kostina, individual rhythmic gymnast
March 1 — Oleg Zaytsev, ice hockey denfenceman
March 6 — Valentina Borisenko, chess player
March 7 — Mariya Barabanova, stage and film actress
March 9 — Pavel Pavlenko, stage and film actor
March 10 — Vladimir Suteev, author
March 20 — Rachel Messerer, silent film actress
March 23 — Yevdokiya Nikulina, World War II bomber commander and Hero of the Soviet Union
March 25 — Mikhail Badyuk, World War II aviator
March 26 — Anatoli Yatskov, consul and intelligence officer during World War II
April 8 — Aleksei Saltykov, film director and screenwriter
April 11 — Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, film and theater actor
April 13
*Grigori Abrikosov, theatre and film actor
*Andronik Iosifyan, aerospace engineer
April 16 — Aleksandr Kondratov, linguist, biologist, journalist and poet
April 17 — Nikolai Kryukov, film and theater actor
April 28 — Valentina Grizodubova, World War II aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union
May 2 — Ivan Lapikov, actor
May 5 — Yakov Belopolsky, architect
May 23 — Veniamin Dymshits, engineer and apparatchik
May 28 — Ivan Kovalev, military officer and statesman
June 4 — Georgy Millyar, actor
June 11 — Mikhail Chumakov, microbiologist and virologist
June 12 — Alexander Koroviakov, painter and art teacher
June 20 — Viktor Makhorin, handball player
June 25 — Sergey Gorshkov, lieutenant general
July 4 — Roman Kachanov, animator
July 15 — Yevgeny Fyodorov, Soviet Air Force major general
July 17
*Vladimir Barmin, engineer and rocket scientist
*Adolf Yushkevich, historian of mathematics
July 24 — Viktor Pankrashkin, basketball player
July 26
*Mikhail Kozell, painter
*Yuri Levitin, composer of classical music
July 31 — Gabdrakhman Kadyrov, speedway rider
August 20 — Viktor Torshin, sport shooter and Olympic medalist
August 24 — Boris Levin, mathematician
August 31 — Alexander Nekrich, historian
September 1 — Aleksey Vakhonin, weightlifter and Olympic champion
September 15 — Yulian Semyonov, writer, scriptwriter and poet
September 16 — Vera Orlova, actress
September 26 — Semyon Ivanov, general and Hero of the Soviet Union
September 27 — Andrey Soloviev, war photographer
October 6 — Sergei Babkov, painter
October 14 — Nikolay Baskakov, painter
November 3 — Leon Theremin, inventor
November 7
*Nikolay Kostylev, weightlifter
*Andrey Tikhonov, mathematician and geophysicist
November 15 — Yelena Gogoleva, actress
November 19 — Leonid Gaidai, comedy film director
November 22 — Tatiana Nikolayeva, pianist and composer
November 29 — Peter Grushin, rocket scientist and academic
December 5 — Yevgeny Gabrilovich, writer, playwright and screenwriter
December 8 — Yevgeny Minayev, weightlifter
December 18 — Natalya Sats, stage director
December 21
*Ivan Kozlovskyi, lyric tenor
*Margarita Nikolaeva, gymnast and Olympian
December 25 — Nikolai Timkov, painter
December 27 — Nina Lugovskaya, painter and theatre designer
December 29
*Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian stage and film actor
*Konstantin Rusakov, politician
December 31 — Mikhail Dudin, poet and writer