1997 in Russia
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Events from the year 1997 in Russia.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Igor Rodionov (until May 22), Igor Sergeyev
Events
[edit]March
[edit]- March 12 — Anna was born
May
[edit]- 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
[edit]- September 17 — Russia joins the Paris Club[1][2]
December
[edit]- December 5 — 1997 Kamchatka earthquake
- December 6 — 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash
- December 14 — Moscow City Duma election, 1997
Births
[edit]January
[edit]- 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[3][4]
- January 14 — Tolmachevy Sisters, winners of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
- January 31 — Anatoliy Ryapolov, long jumper
September
[edit]- September 30 — Yana Kudryavtseva, rhythmic gymnast
October
[edit]- October 20 — Andrey Rublev, tennis player
December
[edit]- December 20 — Lina Fedorova, pair skater[5][6]
Deaths
[edit]January
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- March 23 — Pyotr Lushev, army general (b. 1923)
- March 29 — Aleksandr Ivanov, football player (b. 1928)
April
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- September 11 — Anatoli Polosin, football coach (b. 1935)
October
[edit]- October 5 — Lirisa Rozanova, pilot and navigator during WWII (b. 1918)
- October 6
- Yevgeny Khaldei, naval officer and photographer (b. 1917)
- Georgi Yumatov, film actor (b. 1926)
- October 11 — Ivan Yarygin, heavyweight freestyle wrestler (b. 1948)
- October 22 — Leonid Amalrik, animator (b. 1905)
November
[edit]- November 3 — Vladimir Gulyaev, actor (b. 1924)
- November 15 — Vladimir Vengerov, film director (b. 1920)
December
[edit]- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ Jones, Dow (September 17, 1997). "Russia to Join Paris Club of Creditors". The New York Times.
- ^ "RUSSIA JOINS PARIS CLUB OF CREDITORS". The Washington Post. September 18, 1997.
- ^ "Ivan Provorov Stats And News". NHL.com.
- ^ "Ivan Provorov Hockey Stats and Profile". hockeydb.com.
- ^ "СПИСОК кандидатов в спортивные сборные команды Российской Федерации по фигурному катанию на коньках на 2014-2015 гг. [List of candidates for the Russian national figure skating team in the 2014–2015 season] (PDF) (in Russian)" (PDF). 24 April 2014.
- ^ "Lina FEDOROVA / Maxim MIROSHKIN: 2014/2015". 4 October 2014.
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