Events from the year 1997 in Russia.
Incumbents President: Boris Yeltsin Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin Minister of Defence: Igor Rodionov (until May 22), Igor Sergeyev
Governors
Events
May 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 September 17 — Russia joins the Paris Club
December December 5 — 1997 Kamchatka earthquake December 6 — 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash December 14 — Moscow City Duma election, 1997
Births
January 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 January 14 — Tolmachevy Sisters, winners of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 January 31 — Anatoliy Ryapolov, long jumper
September September 30 — Yana Kudryavtseva, rhythmic gymnast
October October 20 — Andrey Rublev, tennis player
December December 20 — Lina Fedorova, pair skater
Deaths January 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 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 March 23 — Pyotr Lushev, army general (b. 1923) March 29 — Aleksandr Ivanov, football player (b. 1928)
April 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 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 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 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 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 September 11 — Anatoli Polosin, football coach (b. 1935)
October 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 November 3 — Vladimir Gulyaev, actor (b. 1924) November 15 — Vladimir Vengerov, film director (b. 1920)
December 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)
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