1996 in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev, Mikhail Kolesnikov, Igor Rodionov

  Events

January

• 9-18 January - Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis

  April

• 16 April - Shatoy ambush

  June

• 16 June - The first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.

  July

• 3 July - The second round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.

  August

• 6-20 August - Battle of Grozny
• 30 August - The Khasavyurt Accord is signed.

  November

• 11 November - Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing

  December

• 24 December - The Bion No.11 spacecraft is launched.

  Births

• 16 March - Anna Ovcharova, Russian/Swiss figure skater
• 19 March - Feodosiy Efremenkov, figure skater
• 2 April - Polina Agafonova, figure skater
• 12 April - Elizaveta Kulichkova, tennis player
• 14 April - Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, archer
• 22 May - Aleksandr Ageyev, footballer

  Deaths

• 27 January - Vsevolod Sanayev, actor
• 23 May - Kronid Lyubarsky, human rights activist
• 14 June - Alexander Knyazhinsky, cinematographer
• 29 June - Dmitri Pokrovsky, musician