1995 in Russia
Events from the year 1995 in Russia.Incumbents
January
- 3 January – 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
- 25 January – Norwegian rocket incident
April
- 7–8 April – Samashki massacre
May
- 27 May – The 7.0 Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX, leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.
June
- 14–19 June – Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
December
- 17 December – 1995 Russian legislative election
Births
- 16 February
- * Vladimir Fedoseev, chess grandmaster
- * Sergei Prokofyev, footballer
- 2 June – Aleksandr Sumin, footballer
- 27 October – Vladislav Sergeyevich Ozerov, footballer
- 29 November – Valery Kolegov, snowboarder
- 11 December – Natalia Soboleva, snowboarder
Deaths
- 4 February – Elena Mikhailovskaya, first female champion in international draughts
- 2 March – Sasha Krasny, poet
- 23 March – Nikolay Baskakov, ethnologist
- 1 May – Mikhail Zimyanin, Pravda editor-in-chief
- 5 May – Mikhail Botvinnik, World Chess Champion
- 22 June – Leonid Derbenyov, poet
- 23 June – Anatoli Tarasov, ice hockey player and coach
- 13 December – Anatoly Dyatlov, nuclear engineer
