Events from the year 1896 in Russia.

• Monarch – Nicholas II

• 1896 World Figure Skating Championships
• All-Russia Exhibition 1896
• Khodynka Tragedy
• Ādolfs Alunāns Theatre
• Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II

• January 2 – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (d. 1954).
• April 15 – Nikolay Semyonov, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986).
• June 29 – Boris Podolsky, physicist (d. 1966).
• August 9 – Léonide Massine, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1979).
• August 27 – Leon Theremin, inventor (d. 1993).
• October 17 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (d. 1978).
• November 17 – Lev Vygotsky, psychologist (d. 1934).
• December 1 – Georgi Zhukov, military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974).
• December 12 – Vasily Gordov, general (d. 1950).

• 13 October – Alexander Theodorowicz Batalin, botanist (b. 1847)

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