1992 in Russia

Events from the year 1992 in Russia

← 1991 1990 1989 1992 in Russia → 1993 1994 1995
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Incumbents

• President of Russia – Boris Yeltsin (Democratic Party of Russia)
• Vice President of Russia – Alexander Rutskoy (Patriots of Russia)
• Prime Minister of Russia –
  • until 15 June: Boris Yeltsin (Democratic Party of Russia)
  • 15 June–14 December: vacant
  • starting 14 December: Viktor Chernomyrdin (Our Home – Russia)

Events

• January 2 - RTR channel began airing Santa Barbara, which would become the longest-running foreign TV series on Russian television (although only episodes from 217th to 2,040th were aired).

Births

• January 1 — Daniil Apalkov, ice hockey player
• January 2 — Anna Arina Marenko, tennis player
• January 21 — Almaz Askarov, footballer
• January 31 — Alexandr Loginov, biathlete
• February 6 — Sean Babas, commercial, music video and motion picture film director
• March 8 — Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, online prankster
• April 1 — Alex Gilbert, New Zealand-based adoption advocate
• April 3 — Artur Amirov, ice hockey player
• April 12 — Denis Barantsev, ice hockey defenceman
• May 18 — Nina Petushkova, figure skater
• June 5 — Maksim Batov, footballer
• June 8 — Dmitri Avramenko, footballer
• June 19 — Dmitry Barkov, footballer
• July 3 — Alena Adanichkina, triathlete
• July 26 — Sergei Barbashev, ice hockey player
• August 3 — Denis Ablyazin, artistic gymnast
• August 16 — Islam Dzhabrailov, footballer
• September 29 — Marina Antipova, ice dancer
• October 20 — Ksenia Semenova, Olympic gymnast
• November 6 — Zakhar Arzamastsev, ice hockey player
• November 18 — Apti Aukhadov, weightlifter
• November 29 — Marina Antipova, ice dancer
• December 15 — Darya Dugina, journalist and political activist (d. 2022)
• December 31 — Artur Anisimov, footballer

Deaths

January

• January 3 — Pavel Zyryanov, former commander of the Soviet Border Troops (b. 1907)
• January 6 — Nikolay Dutov, long-distance runner (b. 1938)
• January 8 — Zoya Voskresenskaya, diplomat and NKVD secret agent (b. 1907)
• January 21 — Marita Katusheva, volleyball player (b. 1938)
• January 27 — Boris Arapov, composer (b. 1905)

February

• February 10 — Vladimir Brovikov, politician (b. 1931)
• February 13 — Nikolai Bogolyubov, theoretical physicist (b. 1909)
• February 18 — Roman Filippov, actor (b. 1936)
• February 25 — Viktor Reznikov, singer-songwriter (b. 1952)

March

• March 4 — Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, actor (b. 1926)
• March 7 — Asaf Messerer, ballet dancer (b. 1903)
• March 16 — Pyotr Shcherbakov, actor (b. 1929)

April

• April 1 — Konstantin Sergeyev, danseur (b. 1910)
• April 15 — Aleksandr Sevidov, football coach and player (b. 1921)
• April 17 — Arkady Chernyshev, ice hockey, soccer and bandy player (b. 1914)
• April 21 — Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Head of the House of Romanov (b. 1917)

May

• May 6 — Tatyana Yesenina, writer (b. 1918)
• May 8 — Sergey Obraztsov, puppeteer (b. 1901)
• 25 May
  • Viktor Grishin, 23th First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
  • Ruben Zakharian, painter (b. 1901)

June

• June 1 — Anatoli Porkhunov, footballer (b. 1928)
• June 4 — Vladimir Chekalov, painter (b. 1922)
• June 7 — Alexander Koldunov, flying ace during WWII (b. 1923)
• 15 June – Lev Gumilyov, historian (b. 1912)

July

• July 4 — Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, actress (b. 1919)
• July 6 — Vsevolod Safonov, actor (b. 1926)
• July 8 — Nikolay Smirnov, admiral (b. 1917)
• July 16 — Tatyana Pelttser, actress (b. 1904)
• July 18 — Victor Louis, journalist (b. 1928)
• July 20 — Artem Kopot, ice hockey player (b. 1972)
• July 23 — Dmitry Maevsky, painter (b. 1917)
• July 24 — Gavriil Ilzarov, physician (b. 1921)
• July 29 — Dmitry Zubarev, theoretical physicist (b. 1917)

August

• August 1
  • Margarita Aliger, writer (b. 1915)
  • Aleksey Ryazanov, flying ace during WWII (b. 1920)
• August 8 — Ivan Anikeyev, cosmonaut (b. 1933)

September

• September 1 — Ivan Tregubov, ice hockey defenceman (b. 1930)
• September 13 — Arseny Semionov, painter and art teacher (b. 1911)
• September 21 — Aleksandr Almetov, ice hockey player (b. 1940)
• September 26 — Aleksandr Voronin, weightlifter (b. 1951)

October

• October 12 — David Dragunsky, army officer (b. 1910)

November

• November 6 — Lev Orekhov, painter (b. 1913)
• November 22 — Viktor Dubynin, army general (b. 1943)
• November 25
  • Mark Reizen, opera singer (b. 1895)
  • Dmitry Ukolov, ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• November 26 — Leopold Mitrofanov, chess composer (b. 1932)

December

• December 17 — Serafima Amosova, bomber commander during WWII (b. 1914)
• December 18 — Vladimir Semyonov, diplomat (b. 1911)
• December 19 — Vladimir Grebennikov, ice hockey player (b. 1932)
• December 23
  • Lona Cohen, American-born Soviet spy (b. 1913)
  • Vyacheslav Kurennoy, water polo player (b. 1932)
• December 26 — Nikita Magaloff, pianist (b. 1912)