1996_in_Russia
1996 in Russia
List of events
Events from the year 1996 in Russia.
- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev (until 17 July), Mikhail Kolesnikov (until 17 July), Igor Rodionov
January
- 9–18 January – Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis
April
- 16 April – Shatoy ambush
June
- 16 June – The first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.
July
- 3 July – The second round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.
August
- 6–20 August – Battle of Grozny (August 1996)
- 30 August – The Khasavyurt Accord is signed.
November
- 11 November – Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing
December
- 24 December – The Bion No.11 spacecraft is launched.
- 11 February – Daniil Medvedev, tennis player
- 16 March – Anna Ovcharova, Russian/Swiss figure skater
- 19 March – Feodosiy Efremenkov, figure skater
- 2 April – Polina Agafonova, figure skater
- 12 April – Elizaveta Kulichkova, tennis player
- 14 April – Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, archer[1]
- 22 May – Aleksandr Ageyev, footballer
- 27 January – Vsevolod Sanayev, actor (b. 1912)
- 23 May – Kronid Lyubarsky, human rights activist (b. 1934)
- 14 June – Alexander Knyazhinsky, cinematographer (b. 1936)
- 29 June – Dmitri Pokrovsky, musician (b. 1944)
- 3 November - Paul Tatum, Russian-American businessman (born 1955)
- "Tuiana DASHIDORZHIEVA – Olympic | Russian Federation". International Olympic Committee. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
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