1908 in Russia

← 1907 1906 1905 1908 in Russia → 1909 1910 1911
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Events from the year 1908 in Russia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Nicholas II
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin

Events

• 1908 World Figure Skating Championships
• Bezdany raid
• 1908 bombardment of the Majlis
• Russian Empire at the 1908 Summer Olympics
• Tunguska event

Births

• 22 January – Lev Landau, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
• 30 May – Marina Semyonova, ballerina (died 2010)
• 20 June – Vasily Larin, Soviet general (died 1957)
• 3 September – Lev Pontryagin, mathematician (died 1988)^[1]
• 18 September – Viktor Ambartsumian, Soviet Armenian scientist (died 1996)^[2]
• 30 September – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (died 1974)
• 23 October – Ilya Frank, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)
• 30 October – Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Army officer, Minister of Defense (died 1984)

Deaths

References

1. Yakov Sinai (8 October 2003). Russian Mathematicians In The 20th Century. World Scientific. p. 345. ISBN 978-981-4492-55-3. Archived from the original on July 3, 2021. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
2. Journal of Contemporary Physics. Allerton Press. 1998. p. 43. Archived from the original on August 7, 2021. Retrieved August 7, 2021.

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