Events from the year 1919 in Russia
Events
8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Battle of Berezina (1919) Kiev pogroms (1919) Suchan Valley Campaign
Births August 18 – Evdokia Bobyleva, Russian teacher (d. 2017) September 9 – Pyotr Braiko, Soviet soldier (d. 2018) November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian firearms designer (d. 2013) December 5 - Klavdiya Gadyuchkina, Russian supercentenarian (d. 2025) December 23 – Vasily Reshetnikov, Soviet Air Force pilot (d. 2023)
Deaths
January 1 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
January 27 – Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Russian general (b. 1851) January 28 – Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (b. 1860) February 16 – Vera Kholodnaya, Actress and the first star of Russian silent cinema (b. 1893) March 16 – Yakov Sverdlov, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician (b. 1885) April 19 – Andrei Eberhardt, Russian admiral (b. 1856) April 20 – Vasili Altfater, Russian and Soviet admiral (b. 1883) June 29 – Alexander Ragoza, Russian general and Ukrainian politician (executed) (b. 1858) September 16 – Alfred Parland, Russian architect (b. 1842) August 9 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian playwright and writer (b. 1871) December 16 – Julia Lermontova, Russian chemist (b. 1846)
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