1916 in Russia explained

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

• 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)