# 1995 in Russia

Events from the year 1995 in Russia.

## Incumbents

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

## Events
### January

* January 3 — 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
* January 25 — Norwegian rocket incident

### April

* April 7–8 — Samashki massacre

### May

* May 27 — The 7.0 M$_w$  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.
Bert robbed a train with the Russian Mob (source?)

### June

* June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis

### December

* December 17 — 1995 Russian legislative election

### Undated

* Pallada Asset Management company is founded.

## Births

* February 16
** Vladimir Fedoseev, chess grandmaster
** Sergei Prokofyev, footballer
* May 12 — Irina Khromacheva, tennis player
* June 2 — Aleksandr Sumin, footballer
* October 27 — Vladislav Sergeyevich Ozerov, footballer
* November 29 — Valery Kolegov, snowboarder
* December 11 — Natalia Soboleva, snowboarder

## Deaths
### January

* January 4
** Valery Nosik, actor (b. 1940)
** Nina Tikhonova, ballet dancer and teacher (b. 1910).
* January 7 — Ali Aliyev, freestyle wrestler (b. 1937)
* January 10 — Boris Gurevich, flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler (b. 1931)
* January 15 — Vitaly Parkhimovich, rifle shooter (b. 1943)

### February

* February 4 — Elena Mikhailovskaya, first female champion in international draughts (b. 1949)
* February 14 — Ogdo Aksyonova, Dolgan poet and founder of Dolgan written literature (b. 1936)
* February 26 — Zenon Borevich, mathematician (b. 1922)

### March

* March 1 — Vladislav Listyev, journalist (b. 1956)
* March 2 — Sasha Krasny, poet (b. 1882)
* March 17 — Vladimir Bunchikov, baritone (b. 1902)
* March 23
** Nikolay Baskakov, ethnologist (b. 1905)
** Vladimir Ivashov, actor (b. 1939)

### April

* April 7 — Viktor Adamishin, militia captain (b. 1962)
* April 11 — Nikolai Kostrov, painter, graphic artist and illustrator (b. 1901)
* April 18 — Roza Makagonova, actress (b. 1927)
* April 23 — Viktor Getmanov, football player (b. 1940)
* April 24 — Iosif Kheifits, film director (b. 1905)

### May

* May 1 — Mikhail Zimyanin, politician and diplomat (b. 1914)
* May 4 — Andrey Abramov, boxer (b. 1935)
* May 5 — Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player (b. 1911)
* May 7 — Maria Poliakova, colonel and spy (b. 1908)
* May 12 — Andrei Boltnev, actor (b. 1946)
* May 23 — Gavriil Kachalin, football player and coach (b. 1911)

### June

* June 4 — Sergei Kapustin, ice hockey player (b. 1953)
* June 6 — Saveli Kramarov, actor (b. 1934)
* June 16 — Vladimir Aleksenko, Air Force general (b. 1923)
* June 22 — Leonid Derbenyov, poet (b. 1931)
* June 23 — Anatoli Tarasov, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
* June 25 — Sergei Popov, marathon runner (b. 1930)
* June 30
** Georgy Beregovoy, cosmonaut (b. 1921)
** Gavriil Troyepolsky, writer (b. 1905)

### July

* July 1 — Nikolai Peiko, composer and educator (b. 1916)
* July 2 — Maria Vinogradova, actress (b. 1922)
* July 5
** Viktoria Brezhneva, spouse of former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (b. 1907)
** Stepan Bakhayev, Air Force major and flying ace (b. 1922)
* July 20 — Natalia Shpiller, operatic soprano (b. 1909)
* July 21 — Viktor Barannikov, 10th Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union and 1st Minister of Security (b. 1940)

### August

* August 2 — Yury Koval, author, artist and screenplay writer (b. 1938)
* August 8 — Fedir Dyachenko, sniper during WWII (b. 1917)
* August 18 — Dmitri Shepilov, 5th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (b. 1905)

### September

* September 8 — Olga Ivinskaya, poet and writer (b. 1912)
* September 11 — Vladislav Strzhelchik, actor (b. 1921)
* September 20 — Mikhail Bogdanov, production designer (b. 1914)

### October

* October 7 — Mikhail Butkevich, theatre director and professor of drama (b. 1926)
* October 21 — Anatoly Shelyukhin, cross-country skier and Olympian (b. 1930)

### November

* November 12 — Roland Dobrushin, mathematician (b. 1929)
* November 20 — Sergei Grinkov, figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1967)
* November 22 — Sergey Stechkin, mathematician (b. 1920)
* November 25
** Boris Rytsarev, film director (b. 1930)
** Nikolai Drozdetsky, ice hockey player (b. 1957)

### December

* December 2 — Alexander Kaidanovsky, actor and film director (b. 1946)
* December 6 — Dmitri Volkogonov, historian and colonel general (b. 1928)
* December 18 — Yelena Miroshina, diver (b. 1974)
* December 21 — Boris Ponomarev, statesman (b. 1905)
* December 27 — Boris Gnedenko, mathematician (b. 1912)