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Events from the year 1916 in Russia.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Nicholas II
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers –
- until 2 February – Ivan Logginovich Goremykin
- 2 February-23 November – Boris Stürmer
- starting 23 November – Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov
Events
Births
- 9 September — Ada Tschechowa, Russo-German actress (died 1966)
Deaths
- February 9 – Anton Yegorovich von Saltza, general (b. 1843)
- March 19 – Vasily Surikov, painter (b. 1848)
- March 28 – Paul von Plehwe, general (b. 1850)
- May 1 – Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a pilot's licence (b. 1890)
- May 13 – Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish writer (b. 1859)
- May 28 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer and political activist (b. 1856)
- July 2 – Mikhail Pomortsev, meteorologist (b. 1851)
- July 3 – Jeremiah Lomnytskyj, Ukrainian Basilian priest, missionary and servant of God (b. 1860)
- July 15 – Élie Metchnikoff, microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
- September 2 – Gennady Ladyzhensky, Russian painter (b. 1852)
References
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