Events from the year 1996 in

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Incumbents

*President:

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Viktor Chernomyrdin Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин, ; 9 April 19383 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Gas Industry of the Soviet Unio ...

*Minister of Defence:

Pavel Grachev Pavel Sergeyevich Grachev (russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Грачё́в; 1 January 1948 – 23 September 2012), sometimes transliterated as Grachov or Grachyov, was a Russian Army General and the Defence Minister of the Russian Fed ...

(until 17 July), Mikhail Kolesnikov (until 17 July),

Igor Rodionov Igor Nikolayevich Rodionov (russian: Игорь Николаевич Родионов; 1 December 1936 – 19 December 2014) was a Russian general and Duma deputy. He is best known as a hardline politician, and for his service heading the Defen ...

Events

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 Khasavyurt Accord ( ce, Хаси-Эвлан Барт, russian: Хасавюртовские соглашения) was an agreement that marked the end of the First Chechen War, signed in Khasavyurt in Dagestan on 30 August 1996 between Alexander L ...

is signed.

November

*11 November – Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing

December

*24 December – The

Bion No.11 Bion 11 was a Russian biological research satellite that was part of the Bion programme. Scientists from France, Russia and United States conducted the experiments. Bion 11 was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz-U launch vehi ...

spacecraft is launched.

Births

*16 March –

Anna Ovcharova Anna Sergeyevna Ovcharova (russian: Анна Серге́евна Овчарова; born 16 March 1996) is a Russian figure skater. In 2013, she began competing for Switzerland. She is the 2014 Bavarian Open silver medalist, 2014 Challenge Cup br ...

, Russian/Swiss figure skater *19 March – Feodosiy Efremenkov, figure skater *2 April –

Polina Agafonova Polina Vladislavovna Agafonova (russian: Полина Владисла́вовна Агафонова; born 2 April 1996 in Severodvinsk) is a Russian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 World Junior bronze medalist and 2010 Russi ...

, figure skater *12 April –

Elizaveta Kulichkova Elizaveta Dmitrievna Kulichkova (russian: Елизавета Дмитриевна Куличкова; born 12 April 1996) is a Russian former tennis player. She competed for her last pro match at the 2017 US Open In her career, she won seven si ...

, tennis player *14 April –

Tuyana Dashidorzhieva Tuyana Norpolovna Dashidorzhieva (russian: Туяна Норполовна Дашидоржиева; born 14 April 1996) is a Russian competitive archer of Buryat ethnicity. She helped her fellow compatriots and experienced Olympians Ksenia Pe ...

, archer *22 May – Aleksandr Ageyev, footballer

Deaths

*27 January –

Vsevolod Sanayev Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (Все′волод Васи′льевич Сана′ев; 25 2, o.s.February 1912 in Tula, Russian Empire – 27 January 1996 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet film and stage actor popular in the 1960s–1970s. Sanay ...

, actor (b.

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

) *23 May –

Kronid Lyubarsky Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky (russian: Крони́д Арка́дьевич Люба́рский; 4 April 1934 – 23 May 1996) was a Russian journalist, dissident, human rights activist and political prisoner. Early career Born in the city of ...

, human rights activist (b.

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

) *14 June –

Alexander Knyazhinsky Alexander Leonidovich Knyazhinsky (russian: Александр Леонидович Княжинский; 24 January 1936 – 14 June 1996), also spelt Aleksandr Knyazhinskiy, was a Soviet and Russian cinematographer, noted for his work on An ...

, cinematographer (b.

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

) *29 June –

Dmitri Pokrovsky Dmitri Viktorovich Pokrovsky (, 3 May 1944 – 29 June 1996) was a Russian folk music researcher and musician, best known for his efforts to rediscover authentic, and often near extinct rural musical traditions, from many different regions of Russi ...

, musician (b.

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...

) *3 November -

Paul Tatum Paul Edward Tatum (April 2, 1955 – November 3, 1996) was an American expatriate businessman assassinated in a Moscow metro station close to his hotel. Tatum was operating a Hotel Joint Venture with a Chechen businessman named Umar Dzhabrailov; t ...

, Russian-American businessman (born 1955)

References

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