1999 in Russia

Events from the year 1999 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * President: Boris Yeltsin (until 31 December), Vladimir Putin (from 31 December, acting President)
 * Prime Minister:
 * until 12 May: Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov
 * 12 May-9 August: Sergei Stepashin
 * starting 9 August: Vladimir Putin
 * Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev

March

 * 19 March - 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing

June

 * June - Exercise Zapad-99

August

 * August - Invasion of Dagestan

September

 * September - Russian apartment bombings

October

 * 7 October - Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack
 * 21 October - Grozny ballistic missile attack
 * 29 October - Baku–Rostov highway bombing

December

 * December - Alkhan-Yurt massacre
 * 3 December - 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting
 * 19 December - 1999 Russian legislative election

Births

 * 1 June - Dmitri Aliev, figure skater
 * 17 June - Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player

Deaths

 * 12 June - Sergey Khlebnikov, Olympic speed skater (b. 1955)
 * 25 June - Yevgeny Morgunov, actor, film director and script writer (b. 1927)
 * 2 July - Viktor Chebrikov, 6th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1923)
 * 3 July - Igor Belsky, ballet dancer (b. 1925)
 * 28 July - Georgy Rerberg, cinematographer (b. 1937)
 * 22 August - Aleksandr Demyanenko, actor (b. 1937)
 * 20 September - Raisa Gorbacheva, First Lady of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
 * 7 October - Genrikh Sapgir, writer (b. 1928)
 * 18 November - Ivan Frolov, philosopher (b. 1929)
 * 21 December - Sergey Nagovitsyn, singer (b. 1968)
 * 26 December - Ivan Yakovlev, statesman (b. 1910)