Events from the year 1999 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 ...

(until 31 December),

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...

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 ...

: ** until 12 May: Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov ** 12 May-9 August:

Sergei Stepashin Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (russian: Сергей Вадимович Степашин; born 2 March 1952) is a Russian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Russia in 1999. Prior to this he had been appointed as federal security m ...

** starting 9 August:

*Minister of Defence:

Igor Sergeyev Igor Dmitriyevich Sergeyev (; 20 April 1938 – 10 November 2006) was a Soviet and later Russian military officer who was Minister of Defense of Russia from 22 May 1997 to 28 March 2001. He was the first and, as of 2022, the only Marshal of the ...

Events

March

*19 March - 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing

June

*June -

Exercise Zapad-99 Zapad-99 exercise (russian: Запад-99, lit=West-99) was a large scale military exercise conducted in June 1999 and its results forced Russia to adapt a new defense conceptRussia's National Security Concept, 2000. The exercise showed that conv ...

August

*August -

Invasion of Dagestan The Dagestan War (russian: Дагестанская война), also known as the Invasion of Militants in Dagestan (russian: Вторжение боевиков в Дагестан) began when the Chechnya-based Islamic International Peacekeepi ...

September

*September -

Russian apartment bombings The Russian apartment bombings were a series of explosions that hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999, killing more than 300, injuring more than 1,000, and spreading a wave of fear ac ...

October

*7 October - Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack *21 October -

Grozny ballistic missile attack The Grozny ballistic missile attack was a wave of Russian ballistic missile strikes on the Chechen capital Grozny on October 21, 1999, early in the Second Chechen War. The attack killed at least 118 people according to initial reports,

*29 October -

Baku–Rostov highway bombing The Baku–Rostov highway bombing was an incident which occurred near the village of Shaami-Yurt in Chechnya, on October 29, 1999. Two low-flying Russian aircraft carried out repeated rocket attacks on a large convoy of refugees trying to enter ...

December

*December - Alkhan-Yurt massacre *3 December - 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting *19 December -

1999 Russian legislative election Legislative election were held in Russia on 19 December 1999 to elect the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1642 Like in the p ...

Undated

* Arbat-Opera, a chamber musical theatre–enterprise, is created in Moscow.

Births

*1 June -

Dmitri Aliev Dmitri Sergeyevich Aliev (russian: Дмитрий Сергеевич Алиев; born 1 June 1999) is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2020 European champion and the 2020 Russian national champion. On the junior level, he is the 2017 World J ...

, figure skater

Deaths

*12 June -

Sergey Khlebnikov Sergey Anatolevich Khlebnikov (russian: Серге́й Анатольевич Хлебников; 28 August 1955 – 12 June 1999) was a Russian speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 and the 1984 Winter Olympics. He was born ...

, Olympic speed skater (b.

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

) *3 July -

Igor Belsky Igor Dmitrievich Belsky (russian: Игорь Дмитриевич Бельский; 28 March 1925, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 3 July 1999, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. After 20 years of solo work (1942–62) h ...

, ballet dancer (b.

1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...

) *28 July -

Georgy Rerberg Georgy Ivanovich Rerberg (russian: Георгий Иванович Рерберг, September 28, 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union, – July 28, 1999, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet cinematographer. He is known for his work on Andrey Tarkovsky's ''M ...

, cinematographer (b.

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...

) *7 October -

Genrikh Sapgir Genrikh Sapgir (russian: Ге́нрих Вениами́нович Сапги́р; November 20, 1928, Biysk, Altai Krai, Russia – October 7, 1999, Moscow) was a Russian poet and fiction writer of Jewish descent. Biography He was born in Bi ...

, writer (b.

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

) *21 December -

Sergey Nagovitsyn Sergey Borisovich Nagovitsyn (russian: link=no, Серге́й Борисович Наговицын; 22 July 1968 in Perm, RSFSR, USSR – 21 December 1999 in Perm, Russia) was a Russian singer, composer and author of Russian chanson Russia ...

, singer (b.

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

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References

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