# 1993 in Russia

Events from the year 1993 in Russia.

## Incumbents

* President: Boris Yeltsin
* Vice President: Alexander Rutskoy (until 4 October)
* Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
* Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev
* Minister of Internal Affairs: Viktor Yerin
* Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation: Ruslan Khasbulatov (until October 4)

## Events
### January

* January 25 - The Russian space station Mir boasts the first art exhibition in outer space.

### April

* April 25 - 1993 Russian government referendum

### September

* September 21-October 4 - 1993 Russian constitutional crisis

### October

* October-November - Yeltsin sends troops to seize Parliament from his opponents.

### December

* December 12 - 1993 Russian constitutional referendum

## Births

* January 2 – Kirill Minov, ice dancer
* May 1 – Anastasia Belyakova, boxer

## Deaths

* January 24 — Sergei Zakharov, painter (b. 1900)
* January 28 — Anatoly Parfyonov, Greco-Roman wrestler (b. 1925)
* February 11 — Oksana Kostina, individual rhythmic gymnast (b. 1972)
* March 1 — Oleg Zaytsev, ice hockey denfenceman (b. 1939)
* March 6 — Valentina Borisenko, chess player (b. 1920)
* March 7 — Mariya Barabanova, stage and film actress (b. 1911)
* March 9 — Pavel Pavlenko, stage and film actor (b. 1902)
* March 10 — Vladimir Suteev, author (b. 1903)
* March 20 — Rachel Messerer, silent film actress (b. 1902)
* March 23 — Yevdokiya Nikulina, World War II bomber commander and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)
* March 25 — Mikhail Badyuk, World War II aviator (b. 1920)
* March 26 — Anatoli Yatskov, consul and intelligence officer during World War II (b. 1913)
* April 8 — Aleksei Saltykov, film director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
* April 11 — Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, film and theater actor (b. 1910)
* April 13
** Grigori Abrikosov, theatre and film actor (b. 1932)
** Andronik Iosifyan, aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
* April 16 — Aleksandr Kondratov, linguist, biologist, journalist and poet (b. 1937)
* April 17 — Nikolai Kryukov, film and theater actor (b. 1915)
* April 28 — Valentina Grizodubova, World War II aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1909)
* May 2 — Ivan Lapikov, actor (b. 1922)
* May 5 — Yakov Belopolsky, architect (b. 1916)
* May 23 — Veniamin Dymshits, engineer and apparatchik (b. 1910)
* May 28 — Ivan Kovalev, military officer and statesman (b. 1901)
* June 4 — Georgy Millyar, actor (b. 1903)
* June 11 — Mikhail Chumakov, microbiologist and virologist (b. 1909)
* June 12 — Alexander Koroviakov, painter and art teacher (b. 1912)
* June 20 — Viktor Makhorin, handball player (b. 1948)
* June 25 — Sergey Gorshkov, lieutenant general (b. 1902)
* July 4 — Roman Kachanov, animator (b. 1921)
* July 15 — Yevgeny Fyodorov, Soviet Air Force major general (b. 1911)
* July 17
** Vladimir Barmin, engineer and rocket scientist (b. 1909)
** Adolf Yushkevich, historian of mathematics (b. 1906)
* July 24 — Viktor Pankrashkin, basketball player (b. 1957)
* July 26
** Mikhail Kozell, painter (b. 1911)
** Yuri Levitin, composer of classical music (b. 1912)
* July 31 — Gabdrakhman Kadyrov, speedway rider (b. 1941)
* August 20 — Viktor Torshin, sport shooter and Olympic medalist (b. 1948)
* August 24 — Boris Levin, mathematician (b. 1906)
* August 31 — Alexander Nekrich, historian (b. 1920)
* September 1 — Aleksey Vakhonin, weightlifter and Olympic champion (b. 1935)
* September 15 — Yulian Semyonov, writer, scriptwriter and poet (b. 1931)
* September 16 — Vera Orlova, actress (b. 1918)
* September 26 — Semyon Ivanov, general and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1907)
* September 27 — Andrey Soloviev, war photographer (b. 1953)
* October 6 — Sergei Babkov, painter (b. 1920)
* October 14 — Nikolay Baskakov, painter (b. 1918)
* November 3 — Leon Theremin, inventor (b. 1896)
* November 7
** Nikolay Kostylev, weightlifter (b. 1938)
** Andrey Tikhonov, mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1906)
* November 15 — Yelena Gogoleva, actress (b. 1900)
* November 19 — Leonid Gaidai, comedy film director (b. 1923)
* November 22 — Tatiana Nikolayeva, pianist and composer (b. 1924)
* November 29 — Peter Grushin, rocket scientist and academic (b. 1906)
* December 5 — Yevgeny Gabrilovich, writer, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
* December 8 — Yevgeny Minayev, weightlifter (b. 1933)
* December 18 — Natalya Sats, stage director (b. 1903)
* December 21
** Ivan Kozlovskyi, lyric tenor (b. 1900)
** Margarita Nikolaeva, gymnast and Olympian (b. 1935)
* December 25 — Nikolai Timkov, painter (b. 1912)
* December 27 — Nina Lugovskaya, painter and theatre designer (b. 1918)
* December 29
** Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian stage and film actor (b. 1930)
** Konstantin Rusakov, politician (b. 1909)
* December 31 — Mikhail Dudin, poet and writer (b. 1916)