1999 in Russia
Events from the year '''1999 in Russia.'''
Incumbents
- President: Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin
- Prime Minister:
- * until 12 May: Yevgeny Primakov
- * 12 May - 9 August: Sergei Stepashin
- * starting 9 August: Vladimir Putin
- Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev
Events
March
- March 19 — 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing
June
- June — Exercise Zapad-99
August
- August — Invasion of Dagestan
September
- September — Russian apartment bombings
October
- October 7 — Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack
- October 21 — Grozny ballistic missile attack
- October 29 — Baku–Rostov highway bombing
December
- December — Alkhan-Yurt massacre
- December 3 — 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting
- December 19 — 1999 Russian legislative election
Births
- June 1 — Dmitri Aliev, figure skater
- June 17 — Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player
Deaths
January
- January 7 — Viktor Sobolev, astrophysicist
- January 8 — Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, film actress
- January 24 — Elena Dobronravova, actress
- January 28 — Valery Gavrilin, composer
- January 29 — Vladimir Kirillin, physicist
- January 30 — Svetlana Savyolova, film and stage actress
February
- February 11 — Nikolai Sergeyev, fleet admiral
- February 18 — Nikolay Latyshev, referee
March
- March 20 — Igor Vladimirov, film and theater actor and director
- March 30 — Igor Netto, footballer
- March 31
- *Aleksandr Filatov, alpine skier
- *Yuri Knorozov, linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer
April
- April 4 — Vladimir Orlov, 14th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
- April 27 — Pavel Klushantsev, cameraman, film director, producer, screenwriter and author
May
- May 2 — Igor M. Diakonoff, historian, linguist and translator
- May 31 — Anatoli Ivanov, writer
June
- June 4 — Yuri Vasilyev, stage and film actor
- June 6 — Ilya Musin, conductor
- June 7 — Victor Otiev, painter and graphic artist
- June 12 — Sergey Khlebnikov, Olympic speed skater
- June 15 — Igor Kholin, poet and fiction writer
- June 25 — Yevgeny Morgunov, actor, film director and script writer
- June 26 — Muza Krepkogorskaya, theater and film actress
- June 28 — Anatoliy Zheglanov, ski jumper
July
- July 2 — Viktor Chebrikov, 6th Chairman of the Committee for State Security
- July 3
- *Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, applied mathematician
- *Igor Belsky, ballet dancer
- July 13 — Yevgeny Goryansky, football striker and coach
- July 14 — Umyar Mavlikhanov, fencer
- July 22 — Gennadiy Agapov, race walker
- July 23 — Dmitri Tertyshny, ice hockey defenceman
- July 25 — Natalia Androsova, last member of the House of Romanov
- July 27 — Aleksandr Aleksandrov, mathematician, physicist and philosopher
- July 28
- *Maxim Munzuk, Tuvan actor
- *Georgy Rerberg, cinematographer
August
- August 5 — Rimma Zhukova, speed skater
- August 9 — Yuri Volyntsev, stage and film actor
- August 12 — Pavel Arsenov, film actor, screenwriter and director
- August 21 — Yevgeni Yeliseyev, football player and coach
- August 22 — Aleksandr Demyanenko, film and theater actor
September
- September 5 — Leonid Sedov, physicist
- September 8
- *Lev Razgon, journalist
- *Vladimir Samoilov, film and theater actor
- September 15 — Petr Shelokhonov, actor, director, filmmaker and socialite
- September 18 — Viktor Safronov, astronomer
- September 20 — Raisa Gorbacheva, First Lady of the Soviet Union
- September 22 — Vasili Trofimov, football player
- September 25 — Anna Shchetinina, merchant marine sailor
- September 30
- *Nikolay Annenkov, actor
- *Dmitry Likhachev, medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor
October
- October 7 — Genrikh Sapgir, writer
- October 11 — Galina Bystrova, athlete
- October 21 — Gennady Vasilyev, film director
November
- November 8 — Yuri Malyshev, cosmonaut
- November 18
- *Ivan Frolov, philosopher
- *Yevgeni Belosheikin, ice hockey player
- November 20 — Yuri Chesnokov, football player
December
- December 1 — Alexander Tatarenko, painter and art teacher
- December 2 — Vladimir Kravtsov, handball player
- December 3 — Boris Kuznetsov, footballer
- December 9 — Yakov Rylsky, sabre fencer and olympic champion
- December 21 — Sergey Nagovitsyn, singer
- December 23
- *Timur Gaidar, rear admiral, writer and journalist
- *Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball player and coach
- December 26 — Ivan Yakovlev, statesman