Events from the year 1996 in Russia.
Incumbents
- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev (until 17 July), Mikhail Kolesnikov (until 17 July), Igor Rodionov
Events
January
- January 9–18 — Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis
April
- April 16 — Shatoy ambush
June
- June 16 — The first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.
July
- July 3 — The second round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.
August
- August 6–20 — Battle of Grozny (August 1996)
- August 30 — The Khasavyurt Accord is signed.
November
- November 11 — Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing
December
- December 24 — The Bion No.11 spacecraft is launched.
Births
- February 11 — Daniil Medvedev, tennis player
- March 16 — Anna Ovcharova, Russian/Swiss figure skater
- March 19 — Feodosiy Efremenkov, figure skater
- April 2 — Polina Agafonova, figure skater
- April 12 — Elizaveta Kulichkova, tennis player
- April 14 — Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, archer
- May 22 — Aleksandr Ageyev, footballer
Deaths
January
- January 1 — Sergei Yakovlev, actor (b. 1925)
- January 12 — Joseph Kuzmin, 10th First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1910)
- January 25 — Yuri Levitansky, poet and translator (b. 1922)
- January 27
- Vsevolod Sanayev, actor (b. 1912)
- Vyacheslav Lemeshev, Olympic boxer (b. 1952)
February
- February 1 — Sergey Aganov, Marshal of Engineer Troops (b. 1917)
- February 7
- Lydia Chukovskaya, writer, poet, editor, publicist and dissident (b. 1907)
- Boris Tchaikovsky, composer (b. 1925)
- February 17 — Nikolai Starostin, footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1902)
- February 20 — Viktor Konovalenko, ice hockey goaltender (b. 1938)
- February 24 — Anna Larina, writer and third wife of Nikolai Bukharin (b. 1914)
March
- March 5 — Galina Kravchenko, actress (b. 1905)
- March 21 — Nikolai Usenko, Red Army soldier (b. 1924)
- March 29 — Ivan Kalita, equestrian (b. 1927)
April
- April 12 — Igor Ternov, theoretical physicist (b. 1921)
- April 21 — Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen politician (b. 1944)
- April 22 — Serafim Subbotin, flying ace (b. 1921)
May
- May 21 — Vladimir Belyakov, gymnast (b. 1918)
- May 23 — Kronid Lyubarsky, human rights activist (b. 1934)
- May 25 — Vladimir Ukhov, racewalking athlete (b. 1924)
June
- June 10 — Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, fencer (b. 1954)
- June 14 — Alexander Knyazhinsky, cinematographer (b. 1936)
- June 18 — Rif Saitgareev, speedway rider (b. 1960)
- June 29 — Dmitri Pokrovsky, musician (b. 1944)
July
- July 6 — Evgeni Rogov, football player and manager (b. 1929)
- July 9 — Sergey Kuryokhin, composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer (b. 1954)
- July 16 — Iosif Prut, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1900)
August
- August 2
- Aleksandr Nudelman, weapon designer and researcher (b. 1912)
- Sergey Golovkin, serial killer and rapist (b. 1959)
- August 4 — Lev Lemke, actor (b. 1931)
- August 19 — Tatyana Mavrina, painter and children's writer (b. 1902)
- August 24
- Zainab Biisheva, writer (b. 1908)
- Lev Vlassenko, pianist and teacher (b. 1928)
- August 26 — Nikolai Baskakov, Turkologist (b. 1905)
- August 28 — Gevork Kotiantz, painter (b. 1909)
- August 29 — Kirill Yevstigneyev, fighter pilot (b. 1917)
September
- September 2 — Aleksandr Markin, football player (b. 1949)
- September 3
- Veniamin Basner, composer (b. 1925)
- Valeri Kravchenko, volleyball player (b. 1939)
- September 7 — Vyacheslav Solovyov, football player and coach (b. 1925)
- September 8 — Semyon Aranovich, film director (b. 1934)
- September 24 — Pavel Sudoplatov, lieutenant general and spy (b. 1907)
- September 28 — Andrei Suraikin, figure skater (b. 1948)
October
- October 6 — Vladimir Yerokhin, football player (b. 1930)
- October 12 — Nina Alisova, theater and film actress (b. 1915)
- October 18 — Simon Soloveychik, publicist, educator and social philosopher (b. 1930)
- October 20 — Yuri Neprintsev, painter, graphic artist and art teacher (b. 1909)
November
- November 3 — Paul Tatum, Russian-American businessman (b. 1955)
- November 4 — Konstantin Loktev, ice hockey player (b. 1933)
- November 6 — Vadim Ivanov, football player and coach (b. 1943)
- November 10 — Imam Alimsultanov, Chechen bard and folk singer (b. 1957)
- November 18 — Zinovy Gerdt, actor (b. 1916)
- November 24 — Edison Denisov, composer (b. 1929)
December
- December 18 — Yulii Khariton, physicist (b. 1904)
- December 29 — Vasily Mykhlik, pilot (b. 1922)
- December 30 — Lev Oshanin, poet, playwright and writer (b. 1912)
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