1997 in Russia
Events from the year 1997 in Russia.
Incumbents
- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Igor Rodionov, Igor Sergeyev
Events
May
- May 8 β The 1997 Moscow memorandum is signed.
- May 12 β The RussiaβChechen Peace Treaty is signed.
- May 28 β The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet is signed
September
- September 17 β Russia joins the Paris Club
December
- December 5 β 1997 Kamchatka earthquake
- December 6 β 1997 Irkutsk [Antonov An-124 crash]
- December 14 β Moscow City Duma election, 1997
Births
January
- January 4 β Andrei Mironov, retired defensive midfielder who last played for the Latvian club BFC Daugavpils.
- January 13 β Ivan Provorov, ice hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers
- January 14 β Tolmachevy Sisters, winners of Junior [Eurovision Song Contest 2006]
- January 31 β Anatoliy Ryapolov, long jumper
September
- September 30 β Yana Kudryavtseva, rhythmic gymnast
October
- October 20 β Andrey Rublev, tennis player
December
- December 20 β Lina Fedorova, pair skater
Deaths
January
- January 10 β Valentin Koptyug, chemist
- January 13 β Ruslan Stratonovich, physicist and engineer
- January 19
- *Tamara Makarova, actress
- *Vasily Nalimov, philosopher and humanist
- January 23 β Lyudmila Marchenko, film actress
- January 27 β Aleksandr Zarkhi, film director and screenwriter
February
- February 3 β Mikhail Yakushin, football and field hockey player
- February 4 β Alek Rapoport, nonconformist artist
- February 7 β Daniil Shafran, cellist
- February 8 β Michael Voslenski, writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident
- February 19 β David Ashkenazi, pianist, accompanist and composer
- February 25 β Andrei Sinyavsky, writer and dissident
March
- March 23 β Pyotr Lushev, army general
- March 29 β Aleksandr Ivanov, football player
April
- April 3 β Sergei Filatov, equestrian
- April 4 β Vladimir Soloukhin, poet and writer
- April 7 β Georgy Shonin, cosmonaut
- April 24 β Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian and writer
- April 25 β Nikolai Yegorov, politician
- April 26 β Valery Obodzinsky, tenor
- April 29 β Georgy Klimov, linguist
- April 30 β Vladimir Sukharev, sprinter and Olympian
May
- May 13 β Eduard Zakharov, boxer
- May 17 β Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player
- May 18 β Mikhail Anikushin, sculptor
- May 28 β Tatyana Sumarokova, flight navigator during WWII
June
- June 1 β Nikolai Tikhonov, 9th Premier of the Soviet Union
- June 2
- *Nikolai Ozerov, tennis player and actor
- *Zhenya Belousov, pop singer
- June 7 β Nadezhda Simonyan, composer
- June 9 β Yevgeni Lebedev, film and theater actor
- June 12 β Bulat Okudzhava, poet, writer, musician and singer-songwriter
- June 16 β Mariya Batrakova, Red Army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- June 18 β Lev Kopelev, author and dissident
- June 21 β Vladimir Vinogradov, diplomat
July
- July 13 β Ekaterina Kalinchuk, gymnast and Olympic champion
- July 18 β Igor Linchevski, botanist
- July 25 β Boris Novikov, actor
August
- August 10 β Valery Chaptynov, politician
- August 13 β Vladimir Gribov, theoretical physicist
- August 21 β Yuri Nikulin, clown, comedian, circus director and actor
- August 23 β Elena Mayorova, actress
- August 25 β Vitaly Tulenev, painter, visual artist and art teacher
September
- September 11 β Anatoli Polosin, football coach
October
- October 5 β Lirisa Rozanova, pilot and navigator during WWII
- October 6
- *Yevgeny Khaldei, naval officer and photographer
- *Georgi Yumatov, film actor
- October 11 β Ivan Yarygin, heavyweight freestyle wrestler
- October 22 β Leonid Amalrik, animator
November
- November 3 β Vladimir Gulyaev, actor
- November 15 β Vladimir Vengerov, film director
December
- December 10 β Yevgeni Mayorov, ice hockey player
- December 12 β Evgenii Landis, mathematician
- December 19 β Fyodor Simashev, cross-country skier
- December 21 β Igor Dmitriev, ice hockey player
- December 26 β Sergei Mamchur, football defender
- December 27 β Tamara Tyshkevich, shot putter and Olympian
- December 28 β Vassily Solomin, boxer and Olympian