1999 in Russia

Events from the year 1999 in Russia.

← 1998 1997 1996 1999 in Russia → 2000 2001 2002
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin (until 31 December), Vladimir Putin (from 31 December, acting President)
• Prime Minister:
  • until 12 May: Yevgeny Primakov
  • 12 May - 9 August: Sergei Stepashin
  • starting 9 August: Vladimir Putin
• Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev

Events

March

• March 19 — 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing^[1]

June

• June — Exercise Zapad-99

August

• August — Invasion of Dagestan

September

• September — Russian apartment bombings

October

• October 7 — Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack
• October 21 — Grozny ballistic missile attack
• October 29 — Baku–Rostov highway bombing

December

• December — Alkhan-Yurt massacre^[2]
• December 3 — 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting^[3]
• December 19 — 1999 Russian legislative election

Births

• June 1 — Dmitri Aliev, figure skater
• June 17 — Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player

Deaths

January

• January 7 — Viktor Sobolev, astrophysicist (b. 1915)
• January 8 — Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, film actress (b. 1931)
• January 24 — Elena Dobronravova, actress (b. 1932)
• January 28 — Valery Gavrilin, composer (b. 1939)
• January 29 — Vladimir Kirillin, physicist (b. 1913)
• January 30 — Svetlana Savyolova, film and stage actress (b. 1942)

February

• February 11 — Nikolai Sergeyev, fleet admiral (b. 1909)
• February 18 — Nikolay Latyshev, referee (b. 1913)

March

• March 20 — Igor Vladimirov, film and theater actor and director (b. 1919)
• March 30 — Igor Netto, footballer (b. 1930)
• March 31
  • Aleksandr Filatov, alpine skier (b. 1928)
  • Yuri Knorozov, linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer (b. 1922)

April

• April 4 — Vladimir Orlov, 14th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (b. 1921)
• April 27 — Pavel Klushantsev, cameraman, film director, producer, screenwriter and author (b. 1910)

May

• May 2 — Igor M. Diakonoff, historian, linguist and translator (b. 1915)
• May 31 — Anatoli Ivanov, writer (b. 1928)

June

• June 4 — Yuri Vasilyev, stage and film actor (b. 1939)
• June 6 — Ilya Musin, conductor (b. 1904)
• June 7 — Victor Otiev, painter and graphic artist (b. 1935)
• June 12 — Sergey Khlebnikov, Olympic speed skater (b. 1955)
• June 15 — Igor Kholin, poet and fiction writer (b. 1920)
• June 25 — Yevgeny Morgunov, actor, film director and script writer (b. 1927)
• June 26 — Muza Krepkogorskaya, theater and film actress (b. 1924)
• June 28 — Anatoliy Zheglanov, ski jumper (b. 1946)

July

• July 2 — Viktor Chebrikov, 6th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1923)
• July 3
  • Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, applied mathematician (b. 1899)
  • Igor Belsky, ballet dancer (b. 1925)
• July 13 — Yevgeny Goryansky, football striker and coach (b. 1929)
• July 14 — Umyar Mavlikhanov, fencer (b. 1937)
• July 22 — Gennadiy Agapov, race walker (b. 1933)
• July 23 — Dmitri Tertyshny, ice hockey defenceman (b. 1976)
• July 25 — Natalia Androsova, last member of the House of Romanov (b. 1917)
• July 27 — Aleksandr Aleksandrov, mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
• July 28
  • Maxim Munzuk, Tuvan actor (b. 1910)
  • Georgy Rerberg, cinematographer (b. 1937)

August

• August 5 — Rimma Zhukova, speed skater (b. 1925)
• August 9 — Yuri Volyntsev, stage and film actor (b. 1932)
• August 12 — Pavel Arsenov, film actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1936)
• August 21 — Yevgeni Yeliseyev, football player and coach (b. 1908)
• August 22 — Aleksandr Demyanenko, film and theater actor (b. 1937)

September

• September 5 — Leonid Sedov, physicist (b. 1907)
• September 8
  • Lev Razgon, journalist (b. 1908)
  • Vladimir Samoilov, film and theater actor (b. 1924)
• September 15 — Petr Shelokhonov, actor, director, filmmaker and socialite (b. 1929)
• September 18 — Viktor Safronov, astronomer (b. 1917)
• September 20 — Raisa Gorbacheva, First Lady of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
• September 22 — Vasili Trofimov, football player (b. 1919)
• September 25 — Anna Shchetinina, merchant marine sailor (b. 1908)
• September 30
  • Nikolay Annenkov, actor (b. 1899)
  • Dmitry Likhachev, medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor (b. 1906)

October

• October 7 — Genrikh Sapgir, writer (b. 1928)
• October 11 — Galina Bystrova, athlete (b. 1934)
• October 21 — Gennady Vasilyev, film director (b. 1940)

November

• November 8 — Yuri Malyshev, cosmonaut (b. 1941)
• November 18
  • Ivan Frolov, philosopher (b. 1929)
  • Yevgeni Belosheikin, ice hockey player (b. 1966)
• November 20 — Yuri Chesnokov, football player (b. 1952)

December

• December 1 — Alexander Tatarenko, painter and art teacher (b. 1925)
• December 2 — Vladimir Kravtsov, handball player (b. 1949)
• December 3 — Boris Kuznetsov, footballer (b. 1928)
• December 9 — Yakov Rylsky, sabre fencer and olympic champion (b. 1928)
• December 21 — Sergey Nagovitsyn, singer (b. 1968)
• December 23
  • Timur Gaidar, rear admiral, writer and journalist (b. 1926)
  • Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
• December 26 — Ivan Yakovlev, statesman (b. 1910)

See also

• List of Russian films of 1999