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

• 3 January – Pavel Zyryanov, Commander of the Soviet Border Troops (1952-1956,1957-1972) (born 1907)
• 6 January – Nikolay Dutov, long-distance runner (born 1938)
• 8 January – Zoya Voskresenskaya, diplomat and NKVD secret agent (born 1907)
• 21 January – Marita Katusheva, volleyball player (born 1938)
• 27 January – Boris Arapov, composer (born 1905)
• 10 February – Vladimir Brovikov, politician (born 1931)
• 13 February – Nikolai Bogolyubov, theoretical physicist (born 1909)
• 18 February – Roman Filippov, actor (born 1936)
• 25 February – Viktor Reznikov, singer-songwriter (born 1952)
• 4 March – Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, actor (born 1926)
• 7 March – Asaf Messerer, ballet dancer (born 1903)
• 16 March – Pyotr Shcherbakov, actor (born 1929)
• 1 April – Konstantin Sergeyev, danseur (born 1910)
• 15 April – Aleksandr Sevidov, football coach and player (born 1921)
• 17 April – Arkady Chernyshev, ice hockey, soccer and bandy player (born 1914)
• 21 April – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Head of the House of Romanov (born 1917)
• 6 May – Tatyana Yesenina, writer (born 1918)
• 8 May – Sergey Obraztsov, puppeteer (born 1901)
• 25 May
  • Viktor Grishin, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1967-1985) (born 1914)
  • Ruben Zakharian, painter (born 1901)
• 1 June – Anatoli Porkhunov, footballer (born 1928)
• 4 June – Vladimir Chekalov, painter (born 1922)
• 7 June – Alexander Koldunov, flying ace during WWII (born 1923)
• 15 June – Lev Gumilyov, historian (born 1912)
• 4 July – Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, actress (born 1919)
• 6 July – Vsevolod Safonov, actor (born 1926)
• 8 July – Nikolay Smirnov, admiral (born 1917)
• 16 July – Tatyana Pelttser, actress (born 1904)
• 18 July – Victor Louis, journalist (born 1928)
• 20 July – Artem Kopot, ice hockey player (born 1972)
• 23 July – Dmitry Maevsky, painter (born 1917)
• 24 July – Gavriil Ilzarov, physician (born 1921)
• 29 July – Dmitry Zubarev, theoretical physicist (born 1917)
• 1 August
  • Margarita Aliger, writer (born 1915)
  • Aleksey Ryazanov, flying ace during WWII (born 1920)
• 8 August – Ivan Anikeyev, cosmonaut (born 1933)
• 1 September – Ivan Tregubov, ice hockey defenceman (born 1930)
• 13 September – Arseny Semionov, painter and art teacher (born 1911)
• 21 September – Aleksandr Almetov, ice hockey player (born 1940)
• 26 September – Aleksandr Voronin, weightlifter (born 1951)
• 12 October – David Dragunsky, army officer (born 1910)
• 6 November – Lev Orekhov, painter (born 1913)
• 22 November – Viktor Dubynin, army general (born 1943)
• 25 November
  • Mark Reizen, opera singer (born 1895)
  • Dmitry Ukolov, ice hockey player (born 1929)
• 26 November – Leopold Mitrofanov, chess composer (born 1932)
• 17 December – Serafima Amosova, bomber commander during WWII (born 1914)
• 18 December – Vladimir Semyonov, diplomat (born 1911)
• 19 December – Vladimir Grebennikov, ice hockey player (born 1932)
• 23 December
  • Lona Cohen, American-born Soviet spy (born 1913)
  • Vyacheslav Kurennoy, water polo player (born 1932)
• 26 December – Nikita Magaloff, pianist (born 1912)