1994 in Russia

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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 crashes, killing all 124 people on board.
• 12–15 January – United States – Russia mutual detargeting

March

• 23 March – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Southern Siberia, killing all 75 people on board.

September

• 9 September – The Eurasian Patent Convention is signed.

October

• 17–20 October 1994 – State visit by Elizabeth II to Russia^[1]

November

• 26 November – Battle of Grozny (November 1994)

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
• 28 December – Battle of Khankala

Births

• 1 September –
  • Margarita Gasparyan, tennis player
  • Anna Smolina, tennis player
• 30 September – Aliya Mustafina, artistic gymnast^[2]

Deaths

• 23 January – Nikolai Ogarkov, prominent Soviet military personality (b. 1917)
• 29 January – Yevgeny Leonov, actor (b. 1926)
• 3 February – Anatoly Alexandrov, physicist (b. 1903)
• 10 February – Augusts Voss, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia (1966-1984) (b. 1916)
• 1 April – Gennady Voronov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (1962-1971) (b. 1910)
• 17 June – Boris Aleksandrov, composer (b. 1905)
• 11 August – Stanislav Chekan, actor (b. 1922)
• 26 August – Vladimir Burich, poet (b. 1932)
• 20 October – Sergei Bondarchuk, actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 24 October – Alexander Shelepin, Head of KGB (1958-1961) (b. 1918)
• 1 November – Moisey Markov, physicist (b. 1908)
• 13 November – Vladimir Ivashko, Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
• Date unknown - Gunsyn Tsydenova, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet [ru] of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1909)

References

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