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 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.
Bert robbed a train with the Russian Mob
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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