1893 in Russia explained
Events from the year 1893 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- January 17 - Robert Brichenok, artillery lieutenant general (d. 1972)
- February 19 - Boris Belousov, chemist and biophysicist (d. 1970)
- April 2 - Sergei Protopopov, avant-garde composer and music theorist (d. 1954)
- August 19 - Olga Baclanova, actress (d. 1974)
- June 27 - Ivan Belov, military commander and Komandarm 1st rank (d. 1938)
- July 19 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet, playwright, artist, and actor, a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement (d. 1930)
- September 4 - Nicholas Afanasiev, Eastern Orthodox theologian (d. 1966)
- October 6 - Mikhail Babushkin, polar aviator (d. 1937)
- October 12 - Yakov Agranov, the first chief of the Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda (d. 1938)
- November 10 - Aksel Berg, scientist in radio-frequency engineering and Soviet Navy Admiral (d. 1979)
- November 13 - Filipp Alyabushev, major general in World War II (d. 1940)
Deaths
- March 25 - Nikolay Alekseyev, entrepreneur and Mayor of Moscow (b. 1852)
- May 31 - Anna Barykova, poet, satirist and translator (b. 1839)
- June 5 - Yakov Grot, philologist (b. 1812)
- June 26 - Konstantin Albrecht, cellist, teacher and administrator (b. 1836)
- August 29 - Aleksey Apukhtin, poet, writer and critic (b. 1840)
- October 12 - Nikolai Zverev, pianist and teacher (b. 1833)
- October 16 - Iosif Kablits, revolutionary activist, sociologist and publicist (b. 1848)
- November 6 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer during the Romantic period (b. 1840)
- November 8 - Kirill Gorbunov, portrait painter and lithographer (b. 1822)
- November 10 - Leonid Hlibov, poet, writer, teacher, and civic figure (b. 1827)
- December 10 - Vasily Kenel, architect (b. 1834)
- December 16 - Sergei Gribkov, painter and iconographer (b. 1822)
