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
Baranovichi Offensive Battle of Kostiuchnówka Battle of Bitlis Brusilov Offensive Battle of Erzincan Erzurum Offensive Battle of Kowel Lake Naroch Offensive Trebizond Campaign Urkun
Births
17 January — Tatyana Karpova, actress (died 2018) 29 January — Kyra Vayne, Russian-born British opera singer (died 2001) 22 July — Irene Galitzine, Russian-Georgian fashion designer (died 2006) 9 September — Ada Tschechowa, Russo-German actress (died 1966) 21 September — Zinovy Gerdt, actor (died 1996) 4 October — Vitaly Ginzburg, physicist (died 2009) 19 October — Emil Gilels, pianist (died 1985)
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)
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