1995 in Russia

Events from the year 1995 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * President: Boris Yeltsin
 * Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
 * Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev

January

 * 3 January – 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
 * 25 January – Norwegian rocket incident

April

 * 7–8 April – Samashki massacre

May

 * 27 May – The 7.0 Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.

Bert robbed a train with the Russian Mob (source?)

June

 * 14–19 June – Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis

December

 * 17 December – 1995 Russian legislative election

Undated

 * Pallada Asset Management company is founded.

Births

 * 16 February
 * Vladimir Fedoseev, chess grandmaster
 * Sergei Prokofyev, footballer
 * 12 May – Irina Khromacheva, tennis player
 * 2 June – Aleksandr Sumin, footballer
 * 27 October – Vladislav Sergeyevich Ozerov, footballer
 * 29 November – Valery Kolegov, snowboarder
 * 11 December – Natalia Soboleva, snowboarder

Deaths

 * 4 January – Valery Nosik, actor (b. 1940)
 * 4 February – Elena Mikhailovskaya, first female champion in international draughts (b. 1949)
 * 2 March – Sasha Krasny, poet (b. 1882)
 * 23 March
 * Nikolay Baskakov, ethnologist (b. 1905)
 * Vladimir Ivashov, actor (b. 1939)
 * 1 May – Mikhail Zimyanin, Pravda editor-in-chief (b. 1914)
 * 5 May – Mikhail Botvinnik, World Chess Champion (b. 1911)
 * 6 June – Saveli Kramarov, actor (b. 1934)
 * 22 June – Leonid Derbenyov, poet (b. 1931)
 * 23 June – Anatoli Tarasov, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
 * 5 July – Viktoria Brezhneva, wife of former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (b. 1907)
 * 21 July – Viktor Barannikov, former head of FSB (b. 1940)
 * 18 August – Dmitri Shepilov, former Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (1956-1957) (b. 1905)
 * 13 December – Anatoly Dyatlov, nuclear engineer (b. 1931)
 * 21 December – Boris Ponomarev, politician (b. 1905)