1906 in Russia

• Monarch – Nicholas II • Chairman of the Council of Ministers – • until 5 May – Sergei Witte • 5 May–21 July – Ivan Logginovich Goremykin • starting 21 July – Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin • Pyotr Stolypin, Russian prime minister from 1906 to 1911. ==Events==

• Russian Constitution of 1906 • 1906 Russian legislative election • Markovo Republic • Białystok pogrom • Bloody Wednesday (Poland) • Siedlce pogrom • Vyborg Manifesto ==Births==

• 3 January – Ulyana Barkova, Russian farm worker (d. 1991) • 21 January – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007). • 7 February – Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984). • 1 April – Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989). • 3 May – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979) • 4 June – Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990). • 17 June – Olli Ungvere, Estonian actress (d. 1991) • 5 August – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999). • 8 September – Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990) • 25 September – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1975). • 19 December – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (d. 1982). ==Deaths==

• June 14 – Sophia Amirajibi, Georgian poetry translator (b. 1847) • • • ==References==