1740 in Russia

Events from the year 1740 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Anna (until 28 October),  Ivan VI (from 28 October)
 * Regent – Ernst Johann von Biron (28 October – 20 November), Sovereign and Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna (since 20 November)

Events

 * January - The Ice House was built in St. Petersburg.
 * 28 October - 2-months old Prince Ivan Antonovich succeeds Empress Anna of Russia as Ivan VI under the regency of Anna's favourite Ernst von Biron.
 * 20 November - Biron was arrested by the guards led by Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
 * The rulers of the northeast of the Middle Zhuz, including Ablai Khan, concluded an agreement on the Russian protectorate over the Middle Zhuz.

Births

 * 29 February - Thomas MacKenzie, admiral, founder of Sevastopol.
 * 7 May - Nikolai Arkharov, Governor General of Moscow (1781–1784)
 * 28 May - Fedot Shubin, architect
 * 23 August 1740 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia in 1740–41. (d. 1764)
 * 21 September 1740 - Ivan Lepyokhin, Russian naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer. (d. 1802)

Deaths

 * 8 July - Artemy Volynsky, Pyotr Yeropkin and Andrey Khrushchyov, statesmen (executed)
 * 28 October - Anna, empress of Russia (born 1693)
 * 28 October - Anna, empress of Russia (born 1693)
 * 28 October - Anna, empress of Russia (born 1693)