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Events from the year 1996 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev (until 17 July), Mikhail Kolesnikov (until 17 July), Igor Rodionov

Events

January

• 9–18 January – Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis

April

• 16 April – Shatoy ambush

June

• 16 June – The first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.

July

• 3 July – The second round of the 1996 Russian presidential election is held.

August

• 6–20 August – Battle of Grozny (August 1996)
• 30 August – The Khasavyurt Accord is signed.

November

• 11 November – Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing

December

• 24 December – The Bion No.11 spacecraft is launched.

Births

• 11 February – Daniil Medvedev, tennis player
• 16 March – Anna Ovcharova, Russian/Swiss figure skater
• 19 March – Feodosiy Efremenkov, figure skater
• 2 April – Polina Agafonova, figure skater
• 12 April – Elizaveta Kulichkova, tennis player
• 14 April – Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, archer^[1]
• 22 May – Aleksandr Ageyev, footballer

Deaths

• 27 January – Vsevolod Sanayev, actor (b. 1912)
• 23 May – Kronid Lyubarsky, human rights activist (b. 1934)
• 14 June – Alexander Knyazhinsky, cinematographer (b. 1936)
• 29 June – Dmitri Pokrovsky, musician (b. 1944)
• 3 November - Paul Tatum, Russian-American businessman (born 1955)