# 1992 in Russia

Events from the year 1992 in Russia

## Incumbents

* President of Russia – Boris Yeltsin (Democratic Party of Russia)
* Vice President of Russia – Alexander Rutskoy (Patriots of Russia)
* Prime Minister of Russia –
** until 15 June: Boris Yeltsin (Democratic Party of Russia)
** 15 June–14 December: vacant
** starting 14 December: Viktor Chernomyrdin (Our Home – Russia)

## Events

* January 2 - RTR channel began airing Santa Barbara, which would become the longest-running foreign TV series on Russian television (although only episodes from 217th to 2,040th were aired).

## Sport

* In 1992 Russian played American Football against the University of Central Florida (UCF). UCF won this game with a score of 43-6. The game took place at the Citrus Bowl with an attendance of 5,412 people in Orlando, Florida.

## Births

* January 1 — Daniil Apalkov, ice hockey player
* January 2 — Anna Arina Marenko, tennis player
* January 21 — Almaz Askarov, footballer
* January 31 — Alexandr Loginov, biathlete
* February 6 — Sean Babas, commercial, music video and motion picture film director
* March 8 — Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, online prankster
* April 1 — Alex Gilbert, New Zealand-based adoption advocate
* April 3 — Artur Amirov, ice hockey player
* April 12 — Denis Barantsev, ice hockey defenceman
* May 18 — Nina Petushkova, figure skater
* June 5 — Maksim Batov, footballer
* June 8 — Dmitri Avramenko, footballer
* June 19 — Dmitry Barkov, footballer
* July 3 — Alena Adanichkina, triathlete
* July 26 — Sergei Barbashev, ice hockey player
* August 3 — Denis Ablyazin, artistic gymnast
* August 16 — Islam Dzhabrailov, footballer
* September 29 — Marina Antipova, ice dancer
* October 20 — Ksenia Semenova, Olympic gymnast
* November 6 — Zakhar Arzamastsev, ice hockey player
* November 18 — Apti Aukhadov, weightlifter
* November 29 — Marina Antipova, ice dancer
* December 15 — Darya Dugina, journalist and political activist (d. 2022)
* December 31 — Artur Anisimov, footballer

## Deaths
### January

* January 3 — Pavel Zyryanov, former commander of the Soviet Border Troops (b. 1907)
* January 6 — Nikolay Dutov, long-distance runner (b. 1938)
* January 8 — Zoya Voskresenskaya, diplomat and NKVD secret agent (b. 1907)
* January 21 — Marita Katusheva, volleyball player (b. 1938)
* January 27 — Boris Arapov, composer (b. 1905)

### February

* February 10 — Vladimir Brovikov, politician (b. 1931)
* February 13 — Nikolai Bogolyubov, theoretical physicist (b. 1909)
* February 18 — Roman Filippov, actor (b. 1936)
* February 25 — Viktor Reznikov, singer-songwriter (b. 1952)

### March

* March 4 — Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, actor (b. 1926)
* March 7 — Asaf Messerer, ballet dancer (b. 1903)
* March 16 — Pyotr Shcherbakov, actor (b. 1929)

### April

* April 1 — Konstantin Sergeyev, danseur (b. 1910)
* April 15 — Aleksandr Sevidov, football coach and player (b. 1921)
* April 17 — Arkady Chernyshev, ice hockey, soccer and bandy player (b. 1914)
* April 21 — Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Head of the House of Romanov (b. 1917)

### May

* May 6 — Tatyana Yesenina, writer (b. 1918)
* May 8 — Sergey Obraztsov, puppeteer (b. 1901)
* 25 May
** Viktor Grishin, 23th First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
** Ruben Zakharian, painter (b. 1901)

### June

* June 1 — Anatoli Porkhunov, footballer (b. 1928)
* June 4 — Vladimir Chekalov, painter (b. 1922)
* June 7 — Alexander Koldunov, flying ace during WWII (b. 1923)
* 15 June – Lev Gumilyov, historian (b. 1912)

### July

* July 4 — Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, actress (b. 1919)
* July 6 — Vsevolod Safonov, actor (b. 1926)
* July 8 — Nikolay Smirnov, admiral (b. 1917)
* July 16 — Tatyana Pelttser, actress (b. 1904)
* July 18 — Victor Louis, journalist (b. 1928)
* July 20 — Artem Kopot, ice hockey player (b. 1972)
* July 23 — Dmitry Maevsky, painter (b. 1917)
* July 24 — Gavriil Ilzarov, physician (b. 1921)
* July 29 — Dmitry Zubarev, theoretical physicist (b. 1917)

### August

* August 1
** Margarita Aliger, writer (b. 1915)
** Aleksey Ryazanov, flying ace during WWII (b. 1920)
* August 8 — Ivan Anikeyev, cosmonaut (b. 1933)

### September

* September 1 — Ivan Tregubov, ice hockey defenceman (b. 1930)
* September 13 — Arseny Semionov, painter and art teacher (b. 1911)
* September 21 — Aleksandr Almetov, ice hockey player (b. 1940)
* September 26 — Aleksandr Voronin, weightlifter (b. 1951)

### October

* October 12 — David Dragunsky, army officer (b. 1910)

### November

* November 6 — Lev Orekhov, painter (b. 1913)
* November 22 — Viktor Dubynin, army general (b. 1943)
* November 25
** Mark Reizen, opera singer (b. 1895)
** Dmitry Ukolov, ice hockey player (b. 1929)
* November 26 — Leopold Mitrofanov, chess composer (b. 1932)

### December

* December 17 — Serafima Amosova, bomber commander during WWII (b. 1914)
* December 18 — Vladimir Semyonov, diplomat (b. 1911)
* December 19 — Vladimir Grebennikov, ice hockey player (b. 1932)
* December 23
** Lona Cohen, American-born Soviet spy (b. 1913)
** Vyacheslav Kurennoy, water polo player (b. 1932)
* December 26 — Nikita Magaloff, pianist (b. 1912)