1995 in Russia

Events from the year 1995 in Russia.

Incumbents

Events

January

January 3 — 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
January 25 — Norwegian rocket incident

April

April 7–8 — Samashki massacre

May

May 12 — The political party Our Home – Russia is founded.
May 27 — The 7.0 Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX, leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.

June

June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
June 30 — A confidential agreement to end the sale of Russian conventional weapons to Iran by 1999 is signed by Chernomyrdin and Al Gore in Moscow

December

December 17 — 1995 Russian legislative election

Undated

Pallada Asset Management company is founded.

Births

February 16
* Vladimir Fedoseev, chess grandmaster
* Sergei Prokofyev, footballer
May 12 — Irina Khromacheva, tennis player
June 2 — Aleksandr Sumin, footballer
October 27 — Vladislav Sergeyevich Ozerov, footballer
November 29 — Valery Kolegov, snowboarder
December 11 — Natalia Soboleva, snowboarder

Deaths

January

January 4
*Valery Nosik, actor
*Nina Tikhonova, ballet dancer and teacher.
January 7 — Ali Aliyev, freestyle wrestler
January 10 — Boris Gurevich, flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler
January 15 — Vitaly Parkhimovich, rifle shooter

February

February 4 — Elena Mikhailovskaya, first female champion in international draughts
February 14 — Ogdo Aksyonova, Dolgan poet and founder of Dolgan written literature
February 26 — Zenon Borevich, mathematician

March

March 1 — Vladislav Listyev, journalist
March 2 — Sasha Krasny, poet
March 17 — Vladimir Bunchikov, baritone
March 23
*Nikolay Baskakov, ethnologist
*Vladimir Ivashov, actor

April

April 7 — Viktor Adamishin, militia captain
April 11 — Nikolai Kostrov, painter, graphic artist and illustrator
April 18 — Roza Makagonova, actress
April 23 — Viktor Getmanov, football player
April 24 — Iosif Kheifits, film director

May

May 1 — Mikhail Zimyanin, politician and diplomat
May 4 — Andrey Abramov, boxer
May 5 — Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player
May 7 — Maria Poliakova, colonel and spy
May 12 — Andrei Boltnev, actor
May 23 — Gavriil Kachalin, football player and coach

June

June 4 — Sergei Kapustin, ice hockey player
June 6 — Saveli Kramarov, actor
June 16 — Vladimir Aleksenko, Air Force general
June 22 — Leonid Derbenyov, poet
June 23 — Anatoli Tarasov, ice hockey player and coach
June 25 — Sergei Popov, marathon runner
June 30
*Georgy Beregovoy, cosmonaut
*Gavriil Troyepolsky, writer

July

July 1 — Nikolai Peiko, composer and educator
July 2 — Maria Vinogradova, actress
July 5
*Viktoria Brezhneva, spouse of former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev
*Stepan Bakhayev, Air Force major and flying ace
July 20 — Natalia Shpiller, operatic soprano
July 21 — Viktor Barannikov, 10th Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union and 1st Minister of Security

August

August 2 — Yury Koval, author, artist and screenplay writer
August 8 — Fedir Dyachenko, sniper during WWII
August 18 — Dmitri Shepilov, 5th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union

September

September 8 — Olga Ivinskaya, poet and writer
September 11 — Vladislav Strzhelchik, actor
September 20 — Mikhail Bogdanov, production designer

October

October 7 — Mikhail Butkevich, theatre director and professor of drama
October 21 — Anatoly Shelyukhin, cross-country skier and Olympian

November

November 12 — Roland Dobrushin, mathematician
November 20 — Sergei Grinkov, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist
November 22 — Sergey Stechkin, mathematician
November 25
*Boris Rytsarev, film director
*Nikolai Drozdetsky, ice hockey player

December

December 2 — Alexander Kaidanovsky, actor and film director
December 6 — Dmitri Volkogonov, historian and colonel general
December 18 — Yelena Miroshina, diver
December 21 — Boris Ponomarev, statesman
December 27 — Boris Gnedenko, mathematician