# 1997 in Russia

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 12 — Anna was born

### 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

### 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
* 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

## 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)