1997 in Russia

Events from the year 1997 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * President: Boris Yeltsin
 * Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
 * Minister of Defence: Igor Rodionov (until 22 May), Igor Sergeyev

March

 * March 18 — Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023 crashes killing 50 people.

May

 * May 8 — The 1997 Moscow memorandum is signed.
 * May 12 — The Russia–Chechen Peace Treaty is signed.
 * May 28 — The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet is signed

September

 * September 17 — Russia joins the Paris Club

December

 * December 5 — 1997 Kamchatka earthquake
 * December 6 — 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash
 * December 14 — Moscow City Duma election, 1997

January

 * January 4 — Andrei Mironov, retired defensive midfielder who last played for the Latvian club BFC Daugavpils.
 * January 13 — Ivan Provorov, ice hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers
 * January 14 — Tolmachevy Sisters, winners of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
 * January 31 — Anatoliy Ryapolov, long jumper

September

 * September 30 — Yana Kudryavtseva, rhythmic gymnast

October

 * October 20 — Andrey Rublev, tennis player

December

 * December 20 — Lina Fedorova, pair skater

Deaths

 * January 10 — Valentin Koptyug, chemist (b. 1931)
 * January 13 — Ruslan Stratonovich, physicist and engineer (b. 1930)
 * January 19
 * Tamara Makarova, actress (b. 1907)
 * Vasily Nalimov, philosopher and humanist (b. 1910)
 * January 23 — Lyudmila Marchenko, film actress (b. 1940)
 * January 27 — Aleksandr Zarkhi, film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
 * February 3 — Mikhail Yakushin, football and field hockey player (b. 1910)
 * February 4 — Alek Rapoport, nonconformist artist (b. 1933)
 * February 7 — Daniil Shafran, cellist (b. 1923)
 * February 8 — Michael Voslenski, writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident (b. 1920)
 * February 19 — David Ashkenazi, pianist, accompanist and composer (b. 1915)
 * February 25 — Andrei Sinyavsky, writer and dissident (b. 1925)
 * March 23 — Pyotr Lushev, army general (b. 1923)
 * March 29 — Aleksandr Ivanov, football player (b. 1928)
 * April 3 — Sergei Filatov, equestrian (b. 1926)
 * April 4 — Vladimir Soloukhin, poet and writer (b. 1924)
 * April 7 — Georgy Shonin, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
 * April 24 — Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian and writer (b. 1908)
 * April 25 — Nikolai Yegorov, politician (b. 1951)
 * April 26 — Valery Obodzinsky, tenor (b. 1942)
 * April 29 — Georgy Klimov, linguist (b. 1928)
 * April 30 — Vladimir Sukharev, sprinter and Olympian (b. 1924)
 * May 13 — Eduard Zakharov, boxer (b. 1975)
 * May 17 — Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player (b. 1926)
 * May 18 — Mikhail Anikushin, sculptor (b. 1917)
 * May 28 — Tatyana Sumarokova, flight navigator during WWII (b. 1922)
 * June 1 — Nikolai Tikhonov, 9th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1905)
 * June 2
 * Nikolai Ozerov, tennis player and actor (b. 1922)
 * Zhenya Belousov, pop singer (b. 1964)
 * June 7 — Nadezhda Simonyan, composer (b. 1922)
 * June 9 — Yevgeni Lebedev, film and theater actor (b. 1917)
 * June 12 — Bulat Okudzhava, poet, writer, musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1924)
 * June 16 — Mariya Batrakova, Red Army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1922)
 * June 18 — Lev Kopelev, author and dissident (b. 1912)
 * June 21 — Vladimir Vinogradov, diplomat (b. 1921)
 * July 13 — Ekaterina Kalinchuk, gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1922)
 * July 18 — Igor Linchevski, botanist (b. 1908)
 * July 25 — Boris Novikov, actor (b. 1925)
 * August 10 — Valery Chaptynov, politician (b. 1945)
 * August 13 — Vladimir Gribov, theoretical physicist (b. 1930)
 * August 21 — Yuri Nikulin, clown, comedian, circus director and actor (b. 1921)
 * August 23 — Elena Mayorova, actress (b. 1958)
 * August 25 — Vitaly Tulenev, painter, visual artist and art teacher (b. 1937)
 * September 11 — Anatoli Polosin, football coach (b. 1935)
 * October 6 — Georgi Yumatov, film actor (b. 1926)
 * October 5 — Lirisa Rozanova, pilot and navigator during WWII (b. 1918)
 * October 6 — Yevgeny Khaldei, naval officer and photographer (b. 1917)
 * October 11 — Ivan Yarygin, heavyweight freestyle wrestler (b. 1948)
 * October 22 — Leonid Amalrik, animator (b. 1905)
 * November 3 — Vladimir Gulyaev, actor (b. 1924)
 * November 15 — Vladimir Vengerov, film director (b. 1920)
 * December 10 — Yevgeni Mayorov, ice hockey player (b. 1938)
 * December 12 — Evgenii Landis, mathematician (b. 1921)
 * December 19 — Fyodor Simashev, cross-country skier (b. 1945)
 * December 21 — Igor Dmitriev, ice hockey player (b. 1941)
 * December 26 — Sergei Mamchur, football defender (b. 1972)
 * December 27 — Tamara Tyshkevich, shot putter and Olympian (b. 1931)
 * December 28 — Vassily Solomin, boxer and Olympian (b. 1953)