1893 in Russia

← 1892 1891 1890 1893 in Russia → 1894 1895 1896
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Events from the year 1893 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander III

Events

• Ob railway bridge building, founding of Novonikolayevsky settlement, since 1904 city of Novonikolayevsk, now Novosibirsk
• Vladimir Bekhterev described Ankylosing spondylitis (Bekhterev's disease)
• The first publication of The Story of an Unknown Man by Anton Chekhov
• Sergei Rachmaninoff composed the symphonic poem The Rock

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)

References

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