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=
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).{{cite news|last1=Gregory|first1=John|title=Obituary:Nina Tikhonova |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-nina-tikhonova-1572352.html|work=The Independent|date=10 February 1995}}
- 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)
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