1994 in Russia

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Events from the year 1994 in Russia.

Incumbents

January 3 — Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes, killing all 124 people on board.
January 12–15 — United States – Russia mutual detargeting

March 23 — Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Southern Siberia, killing all 75 people on board.

December 5 — The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances was signed in Budapest. It included security assurances against threats against the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
December 12 — Battle of Dolinskoye
December 28 — Battle of Khankala

January 2 — Viktor Aristov, film director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
January 10 — Roman Tkachuk, theatre and film actor (b. 1932)
January 17 — Yevgeny Ivanov, spy (b. 1926)
January 20 — Vitālijs Rubenis, 8th Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities (b. 1914)
January 23
- Nikolai Ogarkov, military officer (b. 1917)
- Alexei Mozhaev, painter, graphic artist and art teacher (b. 1918)
January 26 — Ales Adamovich, writer, critic and academic (b. 1927)
January 27
- Sergei Scherbakov, welterweight boxer (b. 1918)
- Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, astrophysicist (b. 1904)
January 29 — Yevgeny Leonov, actor (b. 1926)

February 1 — Sergei Dubov, journalist, publisher and entrepreneur (b. 1943)
February 3
- Anatoly Alexandrov, physicist (b. 1903)
- Georgy Shchedrovitsky, philosopher and methodologist (b. 1929)
February 4 — Mikhail Linge, middle-distance runner and Olympic champion (b. 1958)
February 10 — Augusts Voss, 3rd First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia (b. 1916)
February 14 — Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer (b. 1936)
February 17 — Aleksandr Chakovsky, editor and novelist (b. 1913)
February 19
- Fyodor Odinokov, actor (b. 1913)
- Ivan Sidorenko, Red Army officer (b. 1919)
February 20 — Vladimir Druzhnikov, actor (b. 1922)
February 21 — Evgeny Belyaev, tenor (b. 1926)

April 1 — Gennady Voronov, 15th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1910)
April 10 — Viktor Afanasyev, journalist and professor of philosophy (b. 1922)
April 13 — Nikolai Kryuchkov, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
April 16 — Victor Popov, theoretical physicist (b. 1937)
April 19 — Taisia Afonina, painter and watercolorist (b. 1913)
April 26 — Andrey Aizderdzis, politician (b. 1958)
April 28 — Oleg Borisov, stage and film actor (b. 1929)

June 4 — Anatoli Vasiliev, realist painter (b. 1917)
June 5 — Nikolay Dementyev, football striker and coach (b. 1915)
June 7 — Anatoly Dorodnitsyn, mathematician (b. 1910)
June 17
- Boris Aleksandrov, composer (b. 1905)
- Leonid Baykov, painter (b. 1919)
- Yuri Nagibin, writer, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1920)
June 22 — Ilya Frez, film director (b. 1909)
June 24 — Vecheslav Zagonek, painter (b. 1919)
June 25 — Matvey Shaposhnikov, military commander (b. 1906)

July 7 — Anna Kostrova, realist painter, graphic artist and book illustrator (b. 1909)
July 27 — Eduard Kolmanovsky, composer (b. 1923)

October 7
- Piotr Alberti, painter (b. 1913)
- Maya Bulgakova, actress (b. 1932)
October 9 — Nikolai Karetnikov, composer (b. 1930)
October 14 — Nikolai Skomorokhov, flying ace (b. 1920)
October 17 — Dmitry Kholodov, journalist (b. 1967)
October 20 — Sergei Bondarchuk, actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
October 24 — Alexander Shelepin, 2nd Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1918)

November 1 — Moisey Markov, physicist (b. 1908)
November 5 — Albert Shesternyov, football player and manager (b. 1941)
November 6 — Vladimir Zagorovsky, chess grandmaster (b. 1925)
November 13 — Vladimir Ivashko, Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
November 24 — Aleksandr Gusev, field hockey player (b. 1955)
November 27 — Rufina Nifontova, stage and film actress (b. 1931)

December 11 — Yuli Raizman, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue (b. 1903)
December 13 — Olga Rubtsova, chess player (b. 1909)
December 19
- Vera Chaplina, children's literature writer and naturalist (b. 1908)
- Vadim Kozin, tenor and songwriter (b. 1903)
December 24 — Alexander Uvarov, ice hockey player (b. 1922)
December 28 — Georgy Baydukov, test pilot, writer and hunter (b. 1907)
December 30
- Dimitri Ivanenko, theoretical physicist (b. 1904)
- Andrei Kuznetsov, volleyball player (b. 1966)

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