Events from the year 1994 in
Russia.
Incumbents
*President:
Boris Yeltsin
*
Prime Minister:
Viktor Chernomyrdin
*Minister of Defence:
Pavel Grachev
Events
January
*3 January –
Baikal Airlines Flight 130
Baikal Airlines Flight 130 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Moscow that crashed on 3 January 1994. The plane involved in the crash was a Tupolev Tu-154 operated by Russian airline Baikal Airlines. The plane was carrying 11 ...
crashes, killing all 124 people on board.
*12–15 January –
United States – Russia mutual detargeting Between 12 and 15 January 1994, President Bill Clinton of the United States and President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation negotiated an agreement between their respective countries not to target strategic nuclear missiles at each other.
T ...
September
*9 September – The
Eurasian Patent Convention
The Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC; russian: Евразийская патентная конвенция) is an international patent law treaty instituting both the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) and the legal system pursuant to which Eura ...
is signed.
October
*17–20 October 1994 –
State visit by Elizabeth II to Russia
November
*26 November –
Battle of Grozny (November 1994)
The November 1994 Battle of Grozny was a covert attempt by Russian Intelligence services to oust the Chechen government of Dzhokhar Dudayev, by seizing the Chechen capital of Grozny. The attack was conducted by armed formations of the oppositi ...
December
*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
The Battle of Dolinskoye (Dolinskoe, Dolinsky), which took place 25 kilometers northwest of the Chechen capital of Grozny, was the first major ground engagement of the First Chechen War.
Battle
The battle began on 12 December 1994, when six ...
*28 December –
Battle of Khankala
Births
* 1 September –
**
Margarita Gasparyan, tennis player
**
Anna Smolina, tennis player
* 30 September –
Aliya Mustafina, artistic gymnast
Deaths
*26 August –
Vladimir Burich
Vladimir Petrovich Burich ( rus, Влади́мир Петро́вич Бури́ч, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪdʑ bʊˈrʲitɕ, a=Vladimir Pyetrovich Burich.ru.vorb.oga; August 6, 1932 – August 26, 1994) was a Russian poet.
He grew ...
, poet (b.
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
)
* 1 November –
Moisey Markov, physicist (b.
1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...
)
* Date unknown -
Gunsyn Tsydenova
Gunsyn Ayusheevna Tsydenova (russian: Гунсын Аюшеевна Цыденова; May 1909 – 1994) was a Soviet veterinarian and politician who served as the chairman of the Presidium of the of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist ...
, chairman of the Presidium of the of the
(b.
1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Januar ...
)
References
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