1995 in Russia
Events from the year 1995 in Russia.
Incumbents
- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev
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