1995 in Russia

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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. ^[1]
• May 27 — The 7.0 M_w  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), 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 ^[2]

December

• December 17 — 1995 Russian legislative election

Undated

• Pallada Asset Management company is founded. ^[3]

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 (b. 1940)
  • Nina Tikhonova, ballet dancer and teacher (b. 1910). ^[4]
• January 7 — Ali Aliyev, freestyle wrestler (b. 1937)
• January 10 — Boris Gurevich, flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler (b. 1931)
• January 15 — Vitaly Parkhimovich, rifle shooter (b. 1943)

February

• February 4 — Elena Mikhailovskaya, first female champion in international draughts (b. 1949)
• February 14 — Ogdo Aksyonova, Dolgan poet and founder of Dolgan written literature (b. 1936)
• February 26 — Zenon Borevich, mathematician (b. 1922)

March

• March 1 — Vladislav Listyev, journalist (b. 1956)
• March 2 — Sasha Krasny, poet (b. 1882)
• March 17 — Vladimir Bunchikov, baritone (b. 1902)
• March 23
  • Nikolay Baskakov, ethnologist (b. 1905)
  • Vladimir Ivashov, actor (b. 1939)

April

• April 7 — Viktor Adamishin, militia captain (b. 1962)
• April 11 — Nikolai Kostrov, painter, graphic artist and illustrator (b. 1901)
• April 18 — Roza Makagonova, actress (b. 1927)
• April 23 — Viktor Getmanov, football player (b. 1940)
• April 24 — Iosif Kheifits, film director (b. 1905)

May

• May 1 — Mikhail Zimyanin, politician and diplomat (b. 1914)
• May 4 — Andrey Abramov, boxer (b. 1935)
• May 5 — Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player (b. 1911)
• May 7 — Maria Poliakova, colonel and spy (b. 1908)
• May 12 — Andrei Boltnev, actor (b. 1946)
• May 23 — Gavriil Kachalin, football player and coach (b. 1911)

June

• June 4 — Sergei Kapustin, ice hockey player (b. 1953)
• June 6 — Saveli Kramarov, actor (b. 1934)
• June 16 — Vladimir Aleksenko, Air Force general (b. 1923)
• June 22 — Leonid Derbenyov, poet (b. 1931)
• June 23 — Anatoli Tarasov, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
• June 25 — Sergei Popov, marathon runner (b. 1930)
• June 30
  • Georgy Beregovoy, cosmonaut (b. 1921)
  • Gavriil Troyepolsky, writer (b. 1905)

July

• July 1 — Nikolai Peiko, composer and educator (b. 1916)
• July 2 — Maria Vinogradova, actress (b. 1922)
• July 5
  • Viktoria Brezhneva, spouse of former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (b. 1907)
  • Stepan Bakhayev, Air Force major and flying ace (b. 1922)
• July 20 — Natalia Shpiller, operatic soprano (b. 1909)
• July 21 — Viktor Barannikov, 10th Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union and 1st Minister of Security (b. 1940)

August

• August 2 — Yury Koval, author, artist and screenplay writer (b. 1938)
• August 8 — Fedir Dyachenko, sniper during WWII (b. 1917)
• August 18 — Dmitri Shepilov, 5th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (b. 1905)

September

• September 8 — Olga Ivinskaya, poet and writer (b. 1912)
• September 11 — Vladislav Strzhelchik, actor (b. 1921)
• September 20 — Mikhail Bogdanov, production designer (b. 1914)

October

• October 7 — Mikhail Butkevich, theatre director and professor of drama (b. 1926)
• October 21 — Anatoly Shelyukhin, cross-country skier and Olympian (b. 1930)

November

• November 12 — Roland Dobrushin, mathematician (b. 1929)
• November 20 — Sergei Grinkov, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1967)
• November 22 — Sergey Stechkin, mathematician (b. 1920)
• November 25
  • Boris Rytsarev, film director (b. 1930)
  • Nikolai Drozdetsky, ice hockey player (b. 1957)

December

• December 2 — Alexander Kaidanovsky, actor and film director (b. 1946)
• December 6 — Dmitri Volkogonov, historian and colonel general (b. 1928)
• December 18 — Yelena Miroshina, diver (b. 1974)
• December 21 — Boris Ponomarev, statesman (b. 1905)
• December 27 — Boris Gnedenko, mathematician (b. 1912)

References

1. Helicon (Ed.). (2018). Chernomyrdin, Viktor (Stepanovich). In The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide. Helicon.
2. Broder, John M. (2000-10-13). "Details of Gore's Secret 1995 Arms Agreement With Russia Revealed / Pact called for end of sales to Iran". SFGATE. Archived from the original on 2022-11-21. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
3. Kommersant newspaper website
4. Gregory, John (10 February 1995). "Obituary:Nina Tikhonova". The Independent.