1994 in Russia
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Events from the year 1994 in Russia.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 3 January – Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes, killing all 124 people on board.
- 12–15 January – United States – Russia mutual detargeting
March
[edit]- 23 March – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Southern Siberia, killing all 75 people on board.
September
[edit]- 9 September – The Eurasian Patent Convention is signed.
October
[edit]- 17–20 October 1994 – State visit by Elizabeth II to Russia[1]
November
[edit]- 26 November – Battle of Grozny (November 1994)
December
[edit]- 5 December – The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances was signed in Budapest. It included security assurances against threats against the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
- 12 December – Battle of Dolinskoye
- 28 December – Battle of Khankala
Births
[edit]- 1 September –
- Margarita Gasparyan, tennis player
- Anna Smolina, tennis player
- 30 September – Aliya Mustafina, artistic gymnast[2]
Deaths
[edit]- 23 January – Nikolai Ogarkov, prominent Soviet military personality (b. 1917)
- 29 January – Yevgeny Leonov, actor (b. 1926)
- 3 February – Anatoly Alexandrov, physicist (b. 1903)
- 10 February – Augusts Voss, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia (1966-1984) (b. 1916)
- 1 April – Gennady Voronov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (1962-1971) (b. 1910)
- 17 June – Boris Aleksandrov, composer (b. 1905)
- 11 August – Stanislav Chekan, actor (b. 1922)
- 26 August – Vladimir Burich, poet (b. 1932)
- 20 October – Sergei Bondarchuk, actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- 24 October – Alexander Shelepin, Head of KGB (1958-1961) (b. 1918)
- 1 November – Moisey Markov, physicist (b. 1908)
- 13 November – Vladimir Ivashko, Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
- Date unknown - Gunsyn Tsydenova, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1909)
References
[edit]- ^ Shapiro, Margaret (18 October 1994). "Elizabeth II Visits Russia on Wave of Royal Gossip". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 19 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Aliya MUSTAFINA – Olympic Gymnastics Artistic | Russian Federation". International Olympic Committee. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
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