1994 in Russia
Events from the year 1994 in Russia.
Incumbents
- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev
Events
January
- January 3 — Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes, killing all 124 people on board.
- January 12–15 — United States – Russia mutual detargeting
March
- March 23 — Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Southern Siberia, killing all 75 people on board.
September
- September 9 — The Eurasian Patent Convention is signed.
October
- October 17–20 — State visit by Elizabeth II to Russia
November
- November 26 — Battle of Grozny (November 1994)
December
- December 5 — The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances was signed in Budapest. It included security assurances against threats against the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
- December 12 — Battle of Dolinskoye
- December 28 — Battle of Khankala
Births
- September 1
- *Margarita Gasparyan, tennis player
- *Anna Smolina, tennis player
- September 30 — Aliya Mustafina, artistic gymnast
Deaths
January
- January 2 — Viktor Aristov, film director and screenwriter
- January 10 — Roman Tkachuk, theatre and film actor
- January 17 — Yevgeny Ivanov, spy
- January 20 — Vitālijs Rubenis, 8th Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities
- January 23
- *Nikolai Ogarkov, military officer
- *Alexei Mozhaev, painter, graphic artist and art teacher
- January 26 — Ales Adamovich, writer, critic and academic
- January 27
- *Sergei Scherbakov, welterweight boxer
- *Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, astrophysicist
- January 29 — Yevgeny Leonov, actor
February
- February 1 — Sergei Dubov, journalist, publisher and entrepreneur
- February 3
- *Anatoly Alexandrov, physicist
- *Georgy Shchedrovitsky, philosopher and methodologist
- February 4 — Mikhail Linge, middle-distance runner and Olympic champion
- February 10 — Augusts Voss, 3rd First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia
- February 14 — Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer
- February 17 — Aleksandr Chakovsky, editor and novelist
- February 19
- *Fyodor Odinokov, actor
- *Ivan Sidorenko, Red Army officer
- February 20 — Vladimir Druzhnikov, actor
- February 21 — Evgeny Belyaev, tenor
March
- March 2 — Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, pilot and navigator
- March 8 — Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, memoirist and Gulag prisoner
- March 23 — Valentina Vladimirova, actress
April
- April 1 — Gennady Voronov, 15th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR
- April 10 — Viktor Afanasyev, journalist and professor of philosophy
- April 13 — Nikolai Kryuchkov, stage and film actor
- April 16 — Victor Popov, theoretical physicist
- April 19 — Taisia Afonina, painter and watercolorist
- April 26 — Andrey Aizderdzis, politician
- April 28 — Oleg Borisov, stage and film actor
May
- May 3 — Vladimir Kostin, basketball referee
- May 11 — Nikolay Fyodorov, animator, director, writer and cartoonist
- May 13 — Vladimir Antoshin, chess Grandmaster
June
- June 4 — Anatoli Vasiliev, realist painter
- June 5 — Nikolay Dementyev, football striker and coach
- June 7 — Anatoly Dorodnitsyn, mathematician
- June 17
- *Boris Aleksandrov, composer
- *Leonid Baykov, painter
- *Yuri Nagibin, writer, screenwriter and novelist
- June 22 — Ilya Frez, film director
- June 24 — Vecheslav Zagonek, painter
- June 25 — Matvey Shaposhnikov, military commander
July
- July 7 — Anna Kostrova, realist painter, graphic artist and book illustrator
- July 27 — Eduard Kolmanovsky, composer
August
- August 1 — Valery Yardy, road cyclist
- August 3 — Innokenty Smoktunovsky, stage and film actor
- August 8 — Leonid Leonov, novelist and playwright
- August 10 — Vladimir Melanin, biathlete
- August 11 — Stanislav Chekan, actor
- August 13 — Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player
- August 19 — Robert Rozhdestvensky, poet and songwriter
- August 26 — Vladimir Burich, poet
September
- September 10 — Yevgeny Dolmatovsky, poet and lyricist
- September 12 — Boris Yegorov, physician and cosmonaut
- September 17 — Vladimir Gershuni, dissident and poet
- September 22 — Igor Chislenko, association football player
- September 24 — Mark Prudkin, stage and film actor
October
- October 7
- *Piotr Alberti, painter
- *Maya Bulgakova, actress
- October 9 — Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
- October 14 — Nikolai Skomorokhov, flying ace
- October 17 — Dmitry Kholodov, journalist
- October 20 — Sergei Bondarchuk, actor, film director and screenwriter
- October 24 — Alexander Shelepin, 2nd Chairman of the Committee for State Security
November
- November 1 — Moisey Markov, physicist
- November 5 — Albert Shesternyov, football player and manager
- November 6 — Vladimir Zagorovsky, chess grandmaster
- November 13 — Vladimir Ivashko, Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- November 24 — Aleksandr Gusev, field hockey player
- November 27 — Rufina Nifontova, stage and film actress
December
- December 11 — Yuli Raizman, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue
- December 13 — Olga Rubtsova, chess player
- December 19
- *Vera Chaplina, children's literature writer and naturalist
- *Vadim Kozin, tenor and songwriter
- December 24 — Alexander Uvarov, ice hockey player
- December 28 — Georgy Baydukov, test pilot, writer and hunter
- December 30
- *Dimitri Ivanenko, theoretical physicist
- *Andrei Kuznetsov, volleyball player
Date unknown
- Gunsyn Tsydenova, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic