1995 in Russia

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Events from the year 1995 in Russia.

Incumbents

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

Events

January

• 3 January – 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
• 25 January – Norwegian rocket incident

April

• 7–8 April – Samashki massacre

May

• 27 May – 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.

June

• 14–19 June – Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis

December

• 17 December – 1995 Russian legislative election

Births

• 16 February
  • Vladimir Fedoseev, chess grandmaster
  • Sergei Prokofyev, footballer
• 2 June – Aleksandr Sumin, footballer
• 27 October – Vladislav Sergeyevich Ozerov, footballer
• 29 November – Valery Kolegov, snowboarder
• 11 December – Natalia Soboleva, snowboarder

Deaths

• 4 February – Elena Mikhailovskaya, first female champion in international draughts (b. 1949)
• 2 March – Sasha Krasny, poet (b. 1882)
• 23 March – Nikolay Baskakov, ethnologist (b. 1905)
• 1 May – Mikhail Zimyanin, Pravda editor-in-chief (b. 1914)
• 5 May – Mikhail Botvinnik, World Chess Champion (b. 1911)
• 22 June – Leonid Derbenyov, poet (b. 1931)
• 23 June – Anatoli Tarasov, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
• 13 December – Anatoly Dyatlov, nuclear engineer (b. 1931)

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