1996 in Russia
Events from the year 1996 in Russia.
Incumbents
- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev, Mikhail Kolesnikov, Igor Rodionov
Events
January
- January 9–18 — Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis
April
- April 16 — Shatoy ambush
June
- June 16 — The first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.
July
- July 3 — The second round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.
August
- August 6–20 — Battle of Grozny (August 1996)
- August 30 — The Khasavyurt Accord is signed.
November
- November 11 — Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing
December
- December 24 — The Bion No.11 spacecraft is launched.
Births
- February 11 — Daniil Medvedev, tennis player
- March 16 — Anna Ovcharova, Russian/Swiss figure skater
- March 19 — Feodosiy Efremenkov, figure skater
- April 2 — Polina Agafonova, figure skater
- April 12 — Elizaveta Kulichkova, tennis player
- April 14 — Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, archer
- May 22 — Aleksandr Ageyev, footballer
Deaths
January
- January 1 — Sergei Yakovlev, actor
- January 12 — Joseph Kuzmin, 10th First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
- January 25 — Yuri Levitansky, poet and translator
- January 27
- *Vsevolod Sanayev, actor
- *Vyacheslav Lemeshev, Olympic boxer
February
- February 1 — Sergey Aganov, Marshal of Engineer Troops
- February 7
- *Lydia Chukovskaya, writer, poet, editor, publicist and dissident
- *Boris Tchaikovsky, composer
- February 17 — Nikolai Starostin, footballer and ice hockey player
- February 20 — Viktor Konovalenko, ice hockey goaltender
- February 24 — Anna Larina, writer and third wife of Nikolai Bukharin
March
- March 5 — Galina Kravchenko, actress
- March 21 — Nikolai Usenko, Red Army soldier
- March 29 — Ivan Kalita, equestrian
April
- April 12 — Igor Ternov, theoretical physicist
- April 21 — Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen politician
- April 22 — Serafim Subbotin, flying ace
May
- May 21 — Vladimir Belyakov, gymnast
- May 23 — Kronid Lyubarsky, human rights activist
- May 25 — Vladimir Ukhov, racewalking athlete
June
- June 10 — Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, fencer
- June 14 — Alexander Knyazhinsky, cinematographer
- June 18 — Rif Saitgareev, speedway rider
- June 29 — Dmitri Pokrovsky, musician
July
- July 6 — Evgeni Rogov, football player and manager
- July 9 — Sergey Kuryokhin, composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer
- July 16 — Iosif Prut, playwright and screenwriter
August
- August 2
- *Aleksandr Nudelman, weapon designer and researcher
- *Sergey Golovkin, serial killer and rapist
- August 4 — Lev Lemke, actor
- August 19 — Tatyana Mavrina, painter and children's writer
- August 24
- *Zainab Biisheva, writer
- *Lev Vlassenko, pianist and teacher
- August 26 — Nikolai Baskakov, Turkologist
- August 28 — Gevork Kotiantz, painter
- August 29 — Kirill Yevstigneyev, fighter pilot
September
- September 2 — Aleksandr Markin, football player
- September 3
- *Veniamin Basner, composer
- *Valeri Kravchenko, volleyball player
- September 7 — Vyacheslav Solovyov, football player and coach
- September 8 — Semyon Aranovich, film director
- September 24 — Pavel Sudoplatov, lieutenant general and spy
- September 28 — Andrei Suraikin, figure skater
October
- October 6 — Vladimir Yerokhin, football player
- October 12 — Nina Alisova, theater and film actress
- October 18 — Simon Soloveychik, publicist, educator and social philosopher
- October 20 — Yuri Neprintsev, painter, graphic artist and art teacher
November
- November 3 — Paul Tatum, Russian-American businessman
- November 4 — Konstantin Loktev, ice hockey player
- November 6 — Vadim Ivanov, football player and coach
- November 10 — Imam Alimsultanov, Chechen bard and folk singer
- November 18 — Zinovy Gerdt, actor
- November 24 — Edison Denisov, composer
December
- December 18 — Yulii Khariton, physicist
- December 29 — Vasily Mykhlik, pilot
- December 30 — Lev Oshanin, poet, playwright and writer