1993 in Russia

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Events from the year 1993 in Russia .

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Vice President: Alexander Rutskoy (until 4 October)
• Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev
• Minister of Internal Affairs: Viktor Yerin
• Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation: Ruslan Khasbulatov (until October 4)

Events

January

• January 25 - The Russian space station Mir boasts the first art exhibition in outer space. ^[1]

April

• April 25 - 1993 Russian government referendum

September

• September 21-October 4 - 1993 Russian constitutional crisis

October

• October-November - Yeltsin sends troops to seize Parliament from his opponents. ^[2]

December

• December 12 - 1993 Russian constitutional referendum

Births

• January 2 – Kirill Minov, ice dancer
• May 1 – Anastasia Belyakova, boxer ^[3]

Deaths

• January 24 — Sergei Zakharov, painter (b. 1900)
• January 28 — Anatoly Parfyonov, Greco-Roman wrestler (b. 1925)
• February 11 — Oksana Kostina, individual rhythmic gymnast (b. 1972)
• March 1 — Oleg Zaytsev, ice hockey denfenceman (b. 1939)
• March 6 — Valentina Borisenko, chess player (b. 1920)
• March 7 — Mariya Barabanova, stage and film actress (b. 1911)
• March 9 — Pavel Pavlenko, stage and film actor (b. 1902)
• March 10 — Vladimir Suteev, author (b. 1903)
• March 20 — Rachel Messerer, silent film actress (b. 1902)
• March 23 — Yevdokiya Nikulina, World War II bomber commander and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)
• March 25 — Mikhail Badyuk, World War II aviator (b. 1920)
• March 26 — Anatoli Yatskov, consul and intelligence officer during World War II (b. 1913)
• April 8 — Aleksei Saltykov, film director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• April 11 — Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, film and theater actor (b. 1910)
• April 13
  • Grigori Abrikosov, theatre and film actor (b. 1932)
  • Andronik Iosifyan, aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
• April 16 — Aleksandr Kondratov, linguist, biologist, journalist and poet (b. 1937)
• April 17 — Nikolai Kryukov, film and theater actor (b. 1915)
• April 28 — Valentina Grizodubova, World War II aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1909)
• May 2 — Ivan Lapikov, actor (b. 1922)
• May 5 — Yakov Belopolsky, architect (b. 1916)
• May 23 — Veniamin Dymshits, engineer and apparatchik (b. 1910)
• May 28 — Ivan Kovalev, military officer and statesman (b. 1901)
• June 4 — Georgy Millyar, actor (b. 1903)
• June 11 — Mikhail Chumakov, microbiologist and virologist (b. 1909)
• June 12 — Alexander Koroviakov, painter and art teacher (b. 1912)
• June 20 — Viktor Makhorin, handball player (b. 1948)
• June 25 — Sergey Gorshkov, lieutenant general (b. 1902)
• July 4 — Roman Kachanov, animator (b. 1921)
• July 15 — Yevgeny Fyodorov, Soviet Air Force major general (b. 1911)
• July 17
  • Vladimir Barmin, engineer and rocket scientist (b. 1909)
  • Adolf Yushkevich, historian of mathematics (b. 1906)
• July 24 — Viktor Pankrashkin, basketball player (b. 1957)
• July 26
  • Mikhail Kozell, painter (b. 1911)
  • Yuri Levitin, composer of classical music (b. 1912)
• July 31 — Gabdrakhman Kadyrov, speedway rider (b. 1941)
• August 20 — Viktor Torshin, sport shooter and Olympic medalist (b. 1948)
• August 24 — Boris Levin, mathematician (b. 1906)
• August 31 — Alexander Nekrich, historian (b. 1920)
• September 1 — Aleksey Vakhonin, weightlifter and Olympic champion (b. 1935)
• September 15 — Yulian Semyonov, writer, scriptwriter and poet (b. 1931)
• September 16 — Vera Orlova, actress (b. 1918)
• September 26 — Semyon Ivanov, general and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1907)
• September 27 — Andrey Soloviev, war photographer (b. 1953)
• October 6 — Sergei Babkov, painter (b. 1920)
• October 14 — Nikolay Baskakov, painter (b. 1918)
• November 3 — Leon Theremin, inventor (b. 1896)
• November 7
  • Nikolay Kostylev, weightlifter (b. 1938)
  • Andrey Tikhonov, mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1906)
• November 15 — Yelena Gogoleva, actress (b. 1900)
• November 19 — Leonid Gaidai, comedy film director (b. 1923)
• November 22 — Tatiana Nikolayeva, pianist and composer (b. 1924)
• November 29 — Peter Grushin, rocket scientist and academic (b. 1906)
• December 5 — Yevgeny Gabrilovich, writer, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• December 8 — Yevgeny Minayev, weightlifter (b. 1933)
• December 18 — Natalya Sats, stage director (b. 1903)
• December 21
  • Ivan Kozlovskyi, lyric tenor (b. 1900)
  • Margarita Nikolaeva, gymnast and Olympian (b. 1935)
• December 25 — Nikolai Timkov, painter (b. 1912)
• December 27 — Nina Lugovskaya, painter and theatre designer (b. 1918)
• December 29
  • Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian stage and film actor (b. 1930)
  • Konstantin Rusakov, politician (b. 1909)
• December 31 — Mikhail Dudin, poet and writer (b. 1916)

References

1. YouTube — Art In Space Ihor Podolchak 1993
2. "Russia profile - Timeline". BBC News. 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
3. "Anastasiia BELIAKOVA - Olympic | Russian Federation". International Olympic Committee. 25 June 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2019.