# 1994 in Russia

Events from the year 1994 in Russia.

## Incumbents

* President: Boris Yeltsin
* Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
* Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev

## Events
### January

* January 3 — Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes, killing all 124 people on board.
* January 12–15 — United States – Russia mutual detargeting

### March

* March 23 — Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Southern Siberia, killing all 75 people on board.

### September

* September 9 — The Eurasian Patent Convention is signed.

### October

* October 17–20 — State visit by Elizabeth II to Russia

### November

* November 26 — Battle of Grozny (November 1994)

### December

* December 5 — The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances was signed in Budapest. It included security assurances against threats against the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
* December 12 — Battle of Dolinskoye
* December 28 — Battle of Khankala

## Births

* September 1
** Margarita Gasparyan, tennis player
** Anna Smolina, tennis player
* September 30 — Aliya Mustafina, artistic gymnast

## Deaths
### January

* January 2 — Viktor Aristov, film director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
* January 10 — Roman Tkachuk, theatre and film actor (b. 1932)
* January 17 — Yevgeny Ivanov, spy (b. 1926)
* January 20 — Vitālijs Rubenis, 8th Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities (b. 1914)
* January 23
** Nikolai Ogarkov, military officer (b. 1917)
** Alexei Mozhaev, painter, graphic artist and art teacher (b. 1918)
* January 26 — Ales Adamovich, writer, critic and academic (b. 1927)
* January 27
** Sergei Scherbakov, welterweight boxer (b. 1918)
** Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, astrophysicist (b. 1904)
* January 29 — Yevgeny Leonov, actor (b. 1926)

### February

* February 1 — Sergei Dubov, journalist, publisher and entrepreneur (b. 1943)
* February 3
** Anatoly Alexandrov, physicist (b. 1903)
** Georgy Shchedrovitsky, philosopher and methodologist (b. 1929)
* February 4 — Mikhail Linge, middle-distance runner and Olympic champion (b. 1958)
* February 10 — Augusts Voss, 3rd First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia (b. 1916)
* February 14 — Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer (b. 1936)
* February 17 — Aleksandr Chakovsky, editor and novelist (b. 1913)
* February 19
** Fyodor Odinokov, actor (b. 1913)
** Ivan Sidorenko, Red Army officer (b. 1919)
* February 20 — Vladimir Druzhnikov, actor (b. 1922)
* February 21 — Evgeny Belyaev, tenor (b. 1926)

### March

* March 2 — Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, pilot and navigator (b. 1920)
* March 8 — Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, memoirist and Gulag prisoner (b. 1908)
* March 23 — Valentina Vladimirova, actress (b. 1927)

### April

* April 1 — Gennady Voronov, 15th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1910)
* April 10 — Viktor Afanasyev, journalist and professor of philosophy (b. 1922)
* April 13 — Nikolai Kryuchkov, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
* April 16 — Victor Popov, theoretical physicist (b. 1937)
* April 19 — Taisia Afonina, painter and watercolorist (b. 1913)
* April 26 — Andrey Aizderdzis, politician (b. 1958)
* April 28 — Oleg Borisov, stage and film actor (b. 1929)

### May

* May 3 — Vladimir Kostin, basketball referee (b. 1921)
* May 11 — Nikolay Fyodorov, animator, director, writer and cartoonist (b. 1914)
* May 13 — Vladimir Antoshin, chess Grandmaster (b. 1929)

### June

* June 4 — Anatoli Vasiliev, realist painter (b. 1917)
* June 5 — Nikolay Dementyev, football striker and coach (b. 1915)
* June 7 — Anatoly Dorodnitsyn, mathematician (b. 1910)
* June 17
** Boris Aleksandrov, composer (b. 1905)
** Leonid Baykov, painter (b. 1919)
** Yuri Nagibin, writer, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1920)
* June 22 — Ilya Frez, film director (b. 1909)
* June 24 — Vecheslav Zagonek, painter (b. 1919)
* June 25 — Matvey Shaposhnikov, military commander (b. 1906)

### July

* July 7 — Anna Kostrova, realist painter, graphic artist and book illustrator (b. 1909)
* July 27 — Eduard Kolmanovsky, composer (b. 1923)

### August

* August 1 — Valery Yardy, road cyclist (b. 1948)
* August 3 — Innokenty Smoktunovsky, stage and film actor (b. 1925)
* August 8 — Leonid Leonov, novelist and playwright (b. 1899)
* August 10 — Vladimir Melanin, biathlete (b. 1933)
* August 11 — Stanislav Chekan, actor (b. 1922)
* August 13 — Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player (b. 1926)
* August 19 — Robert Rozhdestvensky, poet and songwriter (b. 1932)
* August 26 — Vladimir Burich, poet (b. 1932)

### September

* September 10 — Yevgeny Dolmatovsky, poet and lyricist (b. 1915)
* September 12 — Boris Yegorov, physician and cosmonaut (b. 1937)
* September 17 — Vladimir Gershuni, dissident and poet (b. 1930)
* September 22 — Igor Chislenko, association football player (b. 1939)
* September 24 — Mark Prudkin, stage and film actor (b. 1898)

### October

* October 7
** Piotr Alberti, painter (b. 1913)
** Maya Bulgakova, actress (b. 1932)
* October 9 — Nikolai Karetnikov, composer (b. 1930)
* October 14 — Nikolai Skomorokhov, flying ace (b. 1920)
* October 17 — Dmitry Kholodov, journalist (b. 1967)
* October 20 — Sergei Bondarchuk, actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
* October 24 — Alexander Shelepin, 2nd Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1918)

### November

* November 1 — Moisey Markov, physicist (b. 1908)
* November 5 — Albert Shesternyov, football player and manager (b. 1941)
* November 6 — Vladimir Zagorovsky, chess grandmaster (b. 1925)
* November 13 — Vladimir Ivashko, Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
* November 24 — Aleksandr Gusev, field hockey player (b. 1955)
* November 27 — Rufina Nifontova, stage and film actress (b. 1931)

### December

* December 11 — Yuli Raizman, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue (b. 1903)
* December 13 — Olga Rubtsova, chess player (b. 1909)
* December 19
** Vera Chaplina, children's literature writer and naturalist (b. 1908)
** Vadim Kozin, tenor and songwriter (b. 1903)
* December 24 — Alexander Uvarov, ice hockey player (b. 1922)
* December 28 — Georgy Baydukov, test pilot, writer and hunter (b. 1907)
* December 30
** Dimitri Ivanenko, theoretical physicist (b. 1904)
** Andrei Kuznetsov, volleyball player (b. 1966)

### Date unknown

* Gunsyn Tsydenova, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet [ru] of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1909)