# 1996 in Russia

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
* 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)