1995 in Russia

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See also:	Other events of 1995 List of years in Russia

Events from the year 1995 in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• 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 - 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake

June

• 14-19 June - Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis

December

• 17 December - Russian legislative election, 1995

Births

• 16 February - Sergei Prokofyev, footballer
• 10 May - Sergei Volkov, 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)