1916 in Russia

Events from the year 1916 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Nicholas II
 * Chairman of the Council of Ministers –
 * until 2 February – Ivan Logginovich Goremykin
 * 2 February-23 November – Boris Stürmer
 * starting 23 November – Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov

Events

 * Baranovichi Offensive
 * Battle of Kostiuchnówka
 * Battle of Bitlis
 * Brusilov Offensive
 * Battle of Erzincan
 * Erzurum Offensive
 * Battle of Kowel
 * Lake Naroch Offensive
 * Trebizond Campaign
 * Urkun
 * Battle of Erzincan
 * Erzurum Offensive
 * Battle of Kowel
 * Lake Naroch Offensive
 * Trebizond Campaign
 * Urkun

Births

 * 9 September — Ada Tschechowa, Russo-German actress (died 1966)

Deaths

 * February 9 – Anton Yegorovich von Saltza, general (b. 1843)
 * March 19 – Vasily Surikov, painter (b. 1848)
 * March 28 – Paul von Plehwe, general (b. 1850)
 * May 1 – Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a pilot's licence (b. 1890)
 * May 13 – Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish writer (b. 1859)
 * May 28 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer and political activist (b. 1856)
 * July 2 – Mikhail Pomortsev, meteorologist (b. 1851)
 * July 3 – Jeremiah Lomnytskyj, Ukrainian Basilian priest, missionary and servant of God (b. 1860)
 * July 15 – Élie Metchnikoff, microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
 * September 2 – Gennady Ladyzhensky, Russian painter (b. 1852)