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1996 in Russia
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Contents
Incumbents
Events
January
April
June
July
August
November
December
Births
Deaths
January 2
February
March
April 2
May
June 2
July 2
August 2
September
October
November 2
December 2
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See also:
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Events from the year
1996 in
Russia
.
Incumbents
President:
Boris Yeltsin
Prime Minister
:
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Minister of Defence:
Pavel Grachev
(until 17 July),
Mikhail Kolesnikov
(until 17 July),
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
[
1
]
May 22 —
Aleksandr Ageyev
, footballer
Deaths
January
January 1 —
Sergei Yakovlev
, actor (b.
1925
)
January 12 —
Joseph Kuzmin
, 10th
First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
(b.
1910
)
January 25 —
Yuri Levitansky
, poet and translator (b.
1922
)
January 27
Vsevolod Sanayev
, actor (b.
1912
)
Vyacheslav Lemeshev
, Olympic boxer (b.
1952
)
February
February 1 —
Sergey Aganov
,
Marshal of Engineer Troops
(b.
1917
)
February 7
Lydia Chukovskaya
, writer, poet, editor, publicist and dissident (b.
1907
)
Boris Tchaikovsky
, composer (b.
1925
)
February 17 —
Nikolai Starostin
, footballer and ice hockey player (b.
1902
)
February 20 —
Viktor Konovalenko
, ice hockey goaltender (b.
1938
)
February 24 —
Anna Larina
, writer and third wife of
Nikolai Bukharin
(b.
1914
)
March
March 5 —
Galina Kravchenko
, actress (b.
1905
)
March 21 —
Nikolai Usenko
, Red Army soldier (b.
1924
)
March 29 —
Ivan Kalita
, equestrian (b.
1927
)
April
April 12 —
Igor Ternov
, theoretical physicist (b.
1921
)
April 21 —
Dzhokhar Dudayev
, Chechen politician (b.
1944
)
April 22 —
Serafim Subbotin
, flying ace (b.
1921
)
May
May 21 —
Vladimir Belyakov
, gymnast (b.
1918
)
May 23 —
Kronid Lyubarsky
, human rights activist (b.
1934
)
May 25 —
Vladimir Ukhov
, racewalking athlete (b.
1924
)
June
June 10 —
Aleksandr Abushakhmetov
, fencer (b.
1954
)
June 14 —
Alexander Knyazhinsky
, cinematographer (b.
1936
)
June 18 —
Rif Saitgareev
, speedway rider (b.
1960
)
June 29 —
Dmitri Pokrovsky
, musician (b.
1944
)
July
July 6 —
Evgeni Rogov
, football player and manager (b.
1929
)
July 9 —
Sergey Kuryokhin
, composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer (b.
1954
)
July 16 —
Iosif Prut
, playwright and screenwriter (b.
1900
)
August
August 2
Aleksandr Nudelman
, weapon designer and researcher (b.
1912
)
Sergey Golovkin
, serial killer and rapist (b.
1959
)
August 4 —
Lev Lemke
, actor (b.
1931
)
August 19 —
Tatyana Mavrina
, painter and children's writer (b.
1902
)
August 24
Zainab Biisheva
, writer (b.
1908
)
Lev Vlassenko
, pianist and teacher (b.
1928
)
August 26 —
Nikolai Baskakov
,
Turkologist
(b.
1905
)
August 28 —
Gevork Kotiantz
, painter (b.
1909
)
August 29 —
Kirill Yevstigneyev
, fighter pilot (b.
1917
)
September
September 2 —
Aleksandr Markin
, football player (b.
1949
)
September 3
Veniamin Basner
, composer (b.
1925
)
Valeri Kravchenko
, volleyball player (b.
1939
)
September 7 —
Vyacheslav Solovyov
, football player and coach (b.
1925
)
September 8 —
Semyon Aranovich
, film director (b.
1934
)
September 24 —
Pavel Sudoplatov
, lieutenant general and spy (b.
1907
)
September 28 —
Andrei Suraikin
, figure skater (b.
1948
)
October
October 6 —
Vladimir Yerokhin
, football player (b.
1930
)
October 12 —
Nina Alisova
, theater and film actress (b.
1915
)
October 18 —
Simon Soloveychik
, publicist, educator and social philosopher (b.
1930
)
October 20 —
Yuri Neprintsev
, painter, graphic artist and art teacher (b.
1909
)
November
November 3 —
Paul Tatum
, Russian-American businessman (b.
1955
)
November 4 —
Konstantin Loktev
, ice hockey player (b.
1933
)
November 6 —
Vadim Ivanov
, football player and coach (b.
1943
)
November 10 —
Imam Alimsultanov
, Chechen bard and folk singer (b.
1957
)
November 18 —
Zinovy Gerdt
, actor (b.
1916
)
November 24 —
Edison Denisov
, composer (b.
1929
)
December
December 18 —
Yulii Khariton
, physicist (b.
1904
)
December 29 —
Vasily Mykhlik
, pilot (b.
1922
)
December 30 —
Lev Oshanin
, poet, playwright and writer (b.
1912
)
References
↑
"Tuiana DASHIDORZHIEVA – Olympic | Russian Federation"
.
International Olympic Committee
. 23 June 2017
. Retrieved
11 April
2019
.
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