1890 in Russia

Events from the year 1890 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander III

Events

 * Eastern journey of Nicholas II
 * Gugunian Expedition
 * Armenian Revolutionary Federation
 * Haji Alakbar Mosque
 * Rakvere Lihakombinaat
 * Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society
 * Haji Alakbar Mosque
 * Rakvere Lihakombinaat
 * Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society

Births

 * January 20 - Boris Kozo-Polyansky, botanist and evolutionary biologist (d. 1957)
 * February 10 – Boris Pasternak, writer (Doctor Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
 * March 9 (new style) - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
 * April 18 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d.1958)
 * August 3 – Konstantin Melnikov, avant-garde architect (d. 1974)
 * August 13 – Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a pilot's licence (d. 1916)
 * November 9 – Grigory Kulik, Soviet military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1950)
 * November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)