1859 in Russia

Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	History of Russia; Timeline of Russian history; List of years in Russia;

Events from the year 1859 in Russia

Incumbents edit

March 16 [O.S. March 4] – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906 [O.S. 1905])^[1]^[2]
September 24 – Radko Dimitriev, Bulgarian and Russian general (d. 1918)

^ Radovsky, M. (2001). "From childhood to university". Alexander Popov Inventor of Radio. Translated by Yankovsky, G. Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-89875-307-3.
^ 25th European Microwave Conference. Swanley, Kent: Nexus Media. 1995. p. 881. ISBN 978-1-899919-15-4.

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