2002 in Russia

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Events from the year 2002 in Russia.

Incumbents

Governors

Amur Oblast: Leonid Korotkov (Independent)
Arkhangelsk Oblast: Anatoly Yefremov (ER)
Astrakhan Oblast: Anatoly Guzhvin (ER)
Belgorod Oblast: Yevgeny Savchenko (ER)
Bryansk Oblast: Yury Lodkin (CPRF)
Chelyabinsk Oblast: Pyotr Sumin (ER)
Irkutsk Oblast: Boris Govorin (ER)
Ivanovo Oblast: Vladimir Tikhonov (CPRF)
Kaliningrad Oblast: Vladimir Yegorov (ER)
Kaluga Oblast: Anatoly Artamonov (ER)
Kemerovo Oblast: Aman Tuleyev (ER)
Kirov Oblast: Vladimir Shaklein (Independent)
Kostroma Oblast: Viktor Shershunov (CPRF)
Kurgan Oblast: Oleg Bogomolov (Independent)
Kursk Oblast: Aleksandr Mikhailov (CPRF)
Leningrad Oblast: Valery Serdyukov (ER)
Lipetsk Oblast: Oleg Korolyov (ER)
Magadan Oblast: Valentin Tsvetkov (Independent, until October 18), Nikolai Dudov (Acting, ER, starting October 18)
Moscow Oblast: Boris Gromov (ER)
Murmansk Oblast: Yuri Yevdokimov (ER)
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Gennady Khodyrev (ER)
Novgorod Oblast: Mikhail Prusak (ER)
Novosibirsk Oblast: Viktor Tolokonsky (Independent / ER ally)
Omsk Oblast: Leonid Polezhayev (ER)
Orenburg Oblast: Alexey Chernyshev (APR)
Oryol Oblast: Yegor Stroyev (ER)
Penza Oblast: Vasily Bochkarev (ER)
Pskov Oblast: Yevgeny Mikhailov (ER)
Rostov Oblast: Vladimir Chub (ER)
Ryazan Oblast: Vyacheslav Lyubimov (CPRF)
Sakhalin Oblast: Igor Farkhutdinov (Independent)
Samara Oblast: Konstantin Titov (SPS)
Saratov Oblast: Dmitry Ayatskov (ER)
Smolensk Oblast: Aleksandr Prokhorov (CPRF, until May 19), Viktor Maslov (Independent / ER ally, starting May 19)
Tambov Oblast: Oleg Betin (ER)
Tomsk Oblast: Viktor Kress (ER)
Tula Oblast: Vasily Starodubtsev (CPRF)
Tver Oblast: Vladimir Platov (ER)
Tyumen Oblast: Sergey Sobyanin (ER)
Ulyanovsk Oblast: Vladimir Shamanov (ER)
Vladimir Oblast: Nikolay Vinogradov (CPRF)
Volgograd Oblast: Nikolai Maksyuta (CPRF)
Vologda Oblast: Vyacheslav Pozgalyov (ER)
Voronezh Oblast: Vladimir Kulakov (ER)
Yaroslavl Oblast: Anatoly Lisitsyn (ER)
Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Nikolay Volkov (ER)

Events

21 January – Commercial television station TV6 closed down by the Russian government.^[1]
8 February–24 February – Russia competes at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, and wins 5 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals.
4 March – Good Night, Little Ones! airs its first episode on its current home, Telekanal Rossiya, still airing on the VGTRK today.
12 May – An accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome kills eight people and destroys a Buran spacecraft.^[2]
1 July – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 from Moscow to Barcelona in Spain collides with DHL Flight 611 over Überlingen, Germany with 71 fatalities, mostly Russians.^[3]
25 September – Vitim event: a large meteorite crashes in the Vitim River basin in Siberia.^[4]
23 October – Moscow theater hostage crisis: 40 Chechen separatists seize a theatre in Moscow taking 850 hostages.^[1]
26 October – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Russian special forces storm the theatre killing the Chechens and over 100 hostages.^[1]
1 December – Turbomilk, a graphic design company is founded in Samara.^[5]

Notable births

16 April – Dayana Kirillova, singer

Notable deaths

8 January – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
10 March - Natalia Derzhavina, actress (born 1942)
1 Jule - Mikhail Krug, singer (born 1962)
19 September – Sergei Bodrov Jr., actor (born 1971)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 652–653. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Whitehouse, David (13 May 2002). "Russia's space dreams abandoned". BBC. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
^ "Investigation Report AX001-1-2/02 MAY 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
^ ""Cash plea for space impact study", BBC News". 8 October 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
^ Marcy Slane (December 2008). "ICON DESIGN – The three Ps: people, process and problem solving". Dynamic Graphics + Create Magazine. Retrieved 23 March 2011.

External links

[Cassell's_Chronology-1] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 652–653. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[2] Whitehouse, David (13 May 2002). "Russia's space dreams abandoned". BBC. Retrieved 15 April 2008.

[bfu-3] "Investigation Report AX001-1-2/02 MAY 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2008.

[4] ""Cash plea for space impact study", BBC News". 8 October 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2008.

[create-magazine-5] Marcy Slane (December 2008). "ICON DESIGN – The three Ps: people, process and problem solving". Dynamic Graphics + Create Magazine. Retrieved 23 March 2011.

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2002 in Russia

Incumbents

Governors

Events

Notable births

Notable deaths

See also

References

External links