1889 in Russia

Events

Births

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2 February – Vasily Struve, historian, a Soviet orientalist from the Struve family (died 1965)
24 February – Aleksei Dikiy, historian, actor and director (died 1955)
28 February – Pavel Dybenko, a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander (died 1938)
19 March – Boris Gerasimovich, a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1937)
20 March – Alexander Vertinsky, historian, a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor (died 1957)
14 October – Natalia Martirosyan, engineer (died 1960)^[1]
25 November – Yan Berzin, politician and military intelligence officer (died 1938)

Deaths

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22 April – Vasily Kokorev, one of the wealthiest men in Russia, entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector (born 1817)
7 May – Dmitry Tolstoy, a politician and a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia (born 1823)
10 May – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century (born 1826)
20 August – Andrey Krayevsky, publisher and journalist (born 1810)
29 October – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, a literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher (born 1828)
8 November – Nadezhda Sigida, a Russian revolutionary, heroine of the Kara katorga tragedy of 1889 (born 1862)

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