Events from the year 1997 in Russia.

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• Minister of Defence: Igor Rodionov (until May 22), Igor Sergeyev

• March 12 — Anna was born

• May 8 — The 1997 Moscow memorandum is signed.
• May 12 — The Russia–Chechen Peace Treaty is signed.
• May 28 — The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet is signed

• September 17 — Russia joins the Paris Club^[1][2]

• December 5 — 1997 Kamchatka earthquake
• December 6 — 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash
• December 14 — Moscow City Duma election, 1997

• January 4 — Andrei Mironov, retired defensive midfielder who last played for the Latvian club BFC Daugavpils.
• January 13 — Ivan Provorov, ice hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers^[3][4]
• January 14 — Tolmachevy Sisters, winners of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006
• January 31 — Anatoliy Ryapolov, long jumper

• September 30 — Yana Kudryavtseva, rhythmic gymnast

• October 20 — Andrey Rublev, tennis player

• December 20 — Lina Fedorova, pair skater^[5][6]

• January 10 — Valentin Koptyug, chemist (b. 1931)
• January 13 — Ruslan Stratonovich, physicist and engineer (b. 1930)
• January 19
  • Tamara Makarova, actress (b. 1907)
  • Vasily Nalimov, philosopher and humanist (b. 1910)
• January 23 — Lyudmila Marchenko, film actress (b. 1940)
• January 27 — Aleksandr Zarkhi, film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)

• February 3 — Mikhail Yakushin, football and field hockey player (b. 1910)
• February 4 — Alek Rapoport, nonconformist artist (b. 1933)
• February 7 — Daniil Shafran, cellist (b. 1923)
• February 8 — Michael Voslenski, writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident (b. 1920)
• February 19 — David Ashkenazi, pianist, accompanist and composer (b. 1915)
• February 25 — Andrei Sinyavsky, writer and dissident (b. 1925)

• March 23 — Pyotr Lushev, army general (b. 1923)
• March 29 — Aleksandr Ivanov, football player (b. 1928)

• April 3 — Sergei Filatov, equestrian (b. 1926)
• April 4 — Vladimir Soloukhin, poet and writer (b. 1924)
• April 7 — Georgy Shonin, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
• April 24 — Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian and writer (b. 1908)
• April 25 — Nikolai Yegorov, politician (b. 1951)
• April 26 — Valery Obodzinsky, tenor (b. 1942)
• April 29 — Georgy Klimov, linguist (b. 1928)
• April 30 — Vladimir Sukharev, sprinter and Olympian (b. 1924)

• May 13 — Eduard Zakharov, boxer (b. 1975)
• May 17 — Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player (b. 1926)
• May 18 — Mikhail Anikushin, sculptor (b. 1917)
• May 28 — Tatyana Sumarokova, flight navigator during WWII (b. 1922)

• June 1 — Nikolai Tikhonov, 9th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1905)
• June 2
  • Nikolai Ozerov, tennis player and actor (b. 1922)
  • Zhenya Belousov, pop singer (b. 1964)
• June 7 — Nadezhda Simonyan, composer (b. 1922)
• June 9 — Yevgeni Lebedev, film and theater actor (b. 1917)
• June 12 — Bulat Okudzhava, poet, writer, musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1924)
• June 16 — Mariya Batrakova, Red Army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1922)
• June 18 — Lev Kopelev, author and dissident (b. 1912)
• June 21 — Vladimir Vinogradov, diplomat (b. 1921)

• July 13 — Ekaterina Kalinchuk, gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1922)
• July 18 — Igor Linchevski, botanist (b. 1908)
• July 25 — Boris Novikov, actor (b. 1925)

• August 10 — Valery Chaptynov, politician (b. 1945)
• August 13 — Vladimir Gribov, theoretical physicist (b. 1930)
• August 21 — Yuri Nikulin, clown, comedian, circus director and actor (b. 1921)
• August 23 — Elena Mayorova, actress (b. 1958)
• August 25 — Vitaly Tulenev, painter, visual artist and art teacher (b. 1937)

• September 11 — Anatoli Polosin, football coach (b. 1935)

• October 5 — Lirisa Rozanova, pilot and navigator during WWII (b. 1918)
• October 6
  • Yevgeny Khaldei, naval officer and photographer (b. 1917)
  • Georgi Yumatov, film actor (b. 1926)
• October 11 — Ivan Yarygin, heavyweight freestyle wrestler (b. 1948)
• October 22 — Leonid Amalrik, animator (b. 1905)

• November 3 — Vladimir Gulyaev, actor (b. 1924)
• November 15 — Vladimir Vengerov, film director (b. 1920)

• December 10 — Yevgeni Mayorov, ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• December 12 — Evgenii Landis, mathematician (b. 1921)
• December 19 — Fyodor Simashev, cross-country skier (b. 1945)
• December 21 — Igor Dmitriev, ice hockey player (b. 1941)
• December 26 — Sergei Mamchur, football defender (b. 1972)
• December 27 — Tamara Tyshkevich, shot putter and Olympian (b. 1931)
• December 28 — Vassily Solomin, boxer and Olympian (b. 1953)