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Events from the year 1999 in Russia.

## Incumbents

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* 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

## Events

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### March

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* March 19 — 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing[1]

### June

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* June — Exercise Zapad-99

### August

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* August — Invasion of Dagestan

### September

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* September — Russian apartment bombings

### October

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

### December

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* December — Alkhan-Yurt massacre[2]
* December 3 — 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting[3]
* December 19 — 1999 Russian legislative election

## Births

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

## Deaths

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### January

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* 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

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* February 11 — Nikolai Sergeyev, fleet admiral (b. 1909)
* February 18 — Nikolay Latyshev, referee (b. 1913)

### March

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* 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

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* 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

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* May 2 — Igor M. Diakonoff, historian, linguist and translator (b. 1915)
* May 31 — Anatoli Ivanov, writer (b. 1928)

### June

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* October 7 — Genrikh Sapgir, writer (b. 1928)
* October 11 — Galina Bystrova, athlete (b. 1934)
* October 21 — Gennady Vasilyev, film director (b. 1940)

### November

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* 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

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* 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

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* List of Russian films of 1999

## References

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1. ^ "Во Владикавказе завершился суд над организаторами взрыва на центральном рынке города". NEWSru.com (in Russian). 2003-12-15. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
2. ^ "Russia/Chechnya". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
3. ^ Wines, Michael (5 December 1999). "New Reports Back Claims of Attack on Chechen Refugee Convoy". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2022.

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