1997 in Russia

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Events from the year 1997 in Russia .

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• Minister of Defence: Igor Rodionov (until May 22), Igor Sergeyev

Events

March

• March 18 — Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023 crashes killing 50 people.

May

• May 8 — The 1997 Moscow memorandum is signed.
• May 12 — The Russia–Chechen Peace Treaty is signed.
• May 28 — The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet is signed

September

• September 17 — Russia joins the Paris Club ^{[1] [2]}

December

• December 5 — 1997 Kamchatka earthquake
• December 6 — 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash
• December 14 — Moscow City Duma election, 1997

Births

January

• January 4 — Andrei Mironov, retired defensive midfielder who last played for the Latvian club BFC Daugavpils.
• January 13 — Ivan Provorov, ice hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers ^{[3] [4]}
• January 14 — Tolmachevy Sisters, winners of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
• January 31 — Anatoliy Ryapolov, long jumper

September

• September 30 — Yana Kudryavtseva, rhythmic gymnast

October

• October 20 — Andrey Rublev, tennis player

December

• December 20 — Lina Fedorova, pair skater ^{[5] [6]}

Deaths

January

• January 10 — Valentin Koptyug, chemist (b. 1931)
• January 13 — Ruslan Stratonovich, physicist and engineer (b. 1930)
• January 19
  • Tamara Makarova, actress (b. 1907)
  • Vasily Nalimov, philosopher and humanist (b. 1910)
• January 23 — Lyudmila Marchenko, film actress (b. 1940)
• January 27 — Aleksandr Zarkhi, film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)

February

• February 3 — Mikhail Yakushin, football and field hockey player (b. 1910)
• February 4 — Alek Rapoport, nonconformist artist (b. 1933)
• February 7 — Daniil Shafran, cellist (b. 1923)
• February 8 — Michael Voslenski, writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident (b. 1920)
• February 19 — David Ashkenazi, pianist, accompanist and composer (b. 1915)
• February 25 — Andrei Sinyavsky, writer and dissident (b. 1925)

March

• March 23 — Pyotr Lushev, army general (b. 1923)
• March 29 — Aleksandr Ivanov, football player (b. 1928)

April

• April 3 — Sergei Filatov, equestrian (b. 1926)
• April 4 — Vladimir Soloukhin, poet and writer (b. 1924)
• April 7 — Georgy Shonin, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
• April 24 — Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian and writer (b. 1908)
• April 25 — Nikolai Yegorov, politician (b. 1951)
• April 26 — Valery Obodzinsky, tenor (b. 1942)
• April 29 — Georgy Klimov, linguist (b. 1928)
• April 30 — Vladimir Sukharev, sprinter and Olympian (b. 1924)

May

• May 13 — Eduard Zakharov, boxer (b. 1975)
• May 17 — Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player (b. 1926)
• May 18 — Mikhail Anikushin, sculptor (b. 1917)
• May 28 — Tatyana Sumarokova, flight navigator during WWII (b. 1922)

June

• June 1 — Nikolai Tikhonov, 9th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1905)
• June 2
  • Nikolai Ozerov, tennis player and actor (b. 1922)
  • Zhenya Belousov, pop singer (b. 1964)
• June 7 — Nadezhda Simonyan, composer (b. 1922)
• June 9 — Yevgeni Lebedev, film and theater actor (b. 1917)
• June 12 — Bulat Okudzhava, poet, writer, musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1924)
• June 16 — Mariya Batrakova, Red Army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1922)
• June 18 — Lev Kopelev, author and dissident (b. 1912)
• June 21 — Vladimir Vinogradov, diplomat (b. 1921)

July

• July 13 — Ekaterina Kalinchuk, gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1922)
• July 18 — Igor Linchevski, botanist (b. 1908)
• July 25 — Boris Novikov, actor (b. 1925)

August

• August 10 — Valery Chaptynov, politician (b. 1945)
• August 13 — Vladimir Gribov, theoretical physicist (b. 1930)
• August 21 — Yuri Nikulin, clown, comedian, circus director and actor (b. 1921)
• August 23 — Elena Mayorova, actress (b. 1958)
• August 25 — Vitaly Tulenev, painter, visual artist and art teacher (b. 1937)

September

• September 11 — Anatoli Polosin, football coach (b. 1935)

October

• October 5 — Lirisa Rozanova, pilot and navigator during WWII (b. 1918)
• October 6
  • Yevgeny Khaldei, naval officer and photographer (b. 1917)
  • Georgi Yumatov, film actor (b. 1926)
• October 11 — Ivan Yarygin, heavyweight freestyle wrestler (b. 1948)
• October 22 — Leonid Amalrik, animator (b. 1905)

November

• November 3 — Vladimir Gulyaev, actor (b. 1924)
• November 15 — Vladimir Vengerov, film director (b. 1920)

December

• December 10 — Yevgeni Mayorov, ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• December 12 — Evgenii Landis, mathematician (b. 1921)
• December 19 — Fyodor Simashev, cross-country skier (b. 1945)
• December 21 — Igor Dmitriev, ice hockey player (b. 1941)
• December 26 — Sergei Mamchur, football defender (b. 1972)
• December 27 — Tamara Tyshkevich, shot putter and Olympian (b. 1931)
• December 28 — Vassily Solomin, boxer and Olympian (b. 1953)

References

1. Jones, Dow (September 17, 1997). "Russia to Join Paris Club of Creditors". The New York Times.
2. "RUSSIA JOINS PARIS CLUB OF CREDITORS". The Washington Post. September 18, 1997.
3. "Ivan Provorov Stats And News". NHL.com.
4. "Ivan Provorov Hockey Stats and Profile". hockeydb.com.
5. "СПИСОК кандидатов в спортивные сборные команды Российской Федерации по фигурному катанию на коньках на 2014-2015 гг. [List of candidates for the Russian national figure skating team in the 2014–2015 season] (PDF) (in Russian)" (PDF). 24 April 2014.
6. "Lina FEDOROVA / Maxim MIROSHKIN: 2014/2015". 4 October 2014.