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 Primakov 12 May - 9 August: Sergei Stepashin starting 9 August: Vladimir Putin Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev
Governors
Events March March 19 — 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing
June June — Exercise Zapad-99
August August — Invasion of Dagestan
September September — Russian apartment bombings
October October 7 — Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack October 21 — Grozny ballistic missile attack October 29 — Baku–Rostov highway bombing
December December — Alkhan-Yurt massacre December 3 — 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting December 19 — 1999 Russian legislative election
Births June 1 — Dmitri Aliev, figure skater June 17 — Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player
Deaths January January 7 — Viktor Sobolev, astrophysicist (b. 1915) January 8 — Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, film actress (b. 1931) January 24 — Elena Dobronravova, actress (b. 1932) January 28 — Valery Gavrilin, composer (b. 1939) January 29 — Vladimir Kirillin, physicist (b. 1913) January 30 — Svetlana Savyolova, film and stage actress (b. 1942)
February February 11 — Nikolai Sergeyev, fleet admiral (b. 1909) February 18 — Nikolay Latyshev, referee (b. 1913)
March March 20 — Igor Vladimirov, film and theater actor and director (b. 1919) March 30 — Igor Netto, footballer (b. 1930) March 31 Aleksandr Filatov, alpine skier (b. 1928) Yuri Knorozov, linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer (b. 1922)
April April 4 — Vladimir Orlov, 14th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (b. 1921) April 27 — Pavel Klushantsev, cameraman, film director, producer, screenwriter and author (b. 1910)
May May 2 — Igor M. Diakonoff, historian, linguist and translator (b. 1915) May 31 — Anatoli Ivanov, writer (b. 1928)
June June 4 — Yuri Vasilyev, stage and film actor (b. 1939) June 6 — Ilya Musin, conductor (b. 1904) June 7 — Victor Otiev, painter and graphic artist (b. 1935) June 12 — Sergey Khlebnikov, Olympic speed skater (b. 1955) June 15 — Igor Kholin, poet and fiction writer (b. 1920) June 25 — Yevgeny Morgunov, actor, film director and script writer (b. 1927) June 26 — Muza Krepkogorskaya, theater and film actress (b. 1924) June 28 — Anatoliy Zheglanov, ski jumper (b. 1946)
July July 2 — Viktor Chebrikov, 6th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1923) July 3 Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, applied mathematician (b. 1899) Igor Belsky, ballet dancer (b. 1925) July 13 — Yevgeny Goryansky, football striker and coach (b. 1929) July 14 — Umyar Mavlikhanov, fencer (b. 1937) July 22 — Gennadiy Agapov, race walker (b. 1933) July 23 — Dmitri Tertyshny, ice hockey defenceman (b. 1976) July 25 — Natalia Androsova, last member of the House of Romanov (b. 1917) July 27 — Aleksandr Aleksandrov, mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1912) July 28 Maxim Munzuk, Tuvan actor (b. 1910) Georgy Rerberg, cinematographer (b. 1937)
August August 5 — Rimma Zhukova, speed skater (b. 1925) August 9 — Yuri Volyntsev, stage and film actor (b. 1932) August 12 — Pavel Arsenov, film actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1936) August 21 — Yevgeni Yeliseyev, football player and coach (b. 1908) August 22 — Aleksandr Demyanenko, film and theater actor (b. 1937)
September September 5 — Leonid Sedov, physicist (b. 1907) September 8 Lev Razgon, journalist (b. 1908) Vladimir Samoilov, film and theater actor (b. 1924) September 15 — Petr Shelokhonov, actor, director, filmmaker and socialite (b. 1929) September 18 — Viktor Safronov, astronomer (b. 1917) September 20 — Raisa Gorbacheva, First Lady of the Soviet Union (b. 1932) September 22 — Vasili Trofimov, football player (b. 1919) September 25 — Anna Shchetinina, merchant marine sailor (b. 1908) September 30 Nikolay Annenkov, actor (b. 1899) Dmitry Likhachev, medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor (b. 1906)
October October 7 — Genrikh Sapgir, writer (b. 1928) October 11 — Galina Bystrova, athlete (b. 1934) October 21 — Gennady Vasilyev, film director (b. 1940)
November November 8 — Yuri Malyshev, cosmonaut (b. 1941) November 18 Ivan Frolov, philosopher (b. 1929) Yevgeni Belosheikin, ice hockey player (b. 1966) November 20 — Yuri Chesnokov, football player (b. 1952)
December December 1 — Alexander Tatarenko, painter and art teacher (b. 1925) December 2 — Vladimir Kravtsov, handball player (b. 1949) December 3 — Boris Kuznetsov, footballer (b. 1928) December 9 — Yakov Rylsky, sabre fencer and olympic champion (b. 1928) December 21 — Sergey Nagovitsyn, singer (b. 1968) December 23 Timur Gaidar, rear admiral, writer and journalist (b. 1926) Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball player and coach (b. 1929) December 26 — Ivan Yakovlev, statesman (b. 1910)
See also List of Russian films of 1999 References
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