1997 in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• Minister of Defence: Igor Rodionov, Igor Sergeyev

  Events

March

• 18 March - Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023 crashes killing 50 people.

  May

• 8 May - The 1997 Moscow Memorandum is signed.
• 12 May - The Russia–Chechen Peace Treaty is signed.
• 28 May - The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet is signed.

  December

• 5 December - 1997 Kamchatka earthquake
• 6 December - 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash
• 14 December - Moscow City Duma election, 1997

  Births

• 4 January - Andrei Mironov, footballer
• 14 January - Tolmachevy Sisters, winners of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006

  Deaths

• 7 February - Daniil Shafran, cellist
• 21 August - Yuri Nikulin, clown, comedian, circus director, actor.