2004 in Russia

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Events from the year 2004 in Russia.

Incumbents

President: Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov to February 24 Viktor Khristenko as Acting Prime Minister to March 5 Mikhail Fradkov

Governors

Amur Oblast: Leonid Korotkov (ER)
Arkhangelsk Oblast: Anatoly Yefremov (ER, until April 14), Nikolai Kiselev (Independent / ER ally, starting April 14)
Astrakhan Oblast: Anatoly Guzhvin (ER, until August 17), Alexander Zhilkin (ER, starting August 17)
Belgorod Oblast: Yevgeny Savchenko (ER)
Bryansk Oblast: Yury Lodkin (CPRF, until December 20), Nikolay Denin (ER, starting December 20)
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 (ER)
Kostroma Oblast: Viktor Shershunov (CPRF)
Kurgan Oblast: Oleg Bogomolov (ER)
Kursk Oblast: Aleksandr Mikhailov (CPRF)
Leningrad Oblast: Valery Serdyukov (ER)
Lipetsk Oblast: Oleg Korolyov (ER)
Magadan Oblast: Nikolai Dudov (ER)
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 (ER)
Omsk Oblast: Leonid Polezhayev (ER)
Orenburg Oblast: Alexey Chernyshev (ER)
Oryol Oblast: Yegor Stroyev (ER)
Penza Oblast: Vasily Bochkarev (ER)
Pskov Oblast: Yevgeny Mikhailov (ER, until December 5), Mikhail Kuznetsov (Sovereign Russia / ER ally, starting December 5)
Rostov Oblast: Vladimir Chub (ER)
Ryazan Oblast: Vyacheslav Lyubimov (CPRF, until April 12), Georgy Shpak (Rodina, starting April 12)
Sakhalin Oblast: Ivan Malakhov (ER)
Samara Oblast: Konstantin Titov (ER)
Saratov Oblast: Dmitry Ayatskov (ER)
Smolensk Oblast: Viktor Maslov (ER)
Tambov Oblast: Oleg Betin (ER)
Tomsk Oblast: Viktor Kress (ER)
Tula Oblast: Vasily Starodubtsev (CPRF)
Tver Oblast: Dmitry Zelenin (ER)
Tyumen Oblast: Sergey Sobyanin (ER)
Ulyanovsk Oblast: Vladimir Shamanov (ER, until November 22), Aleksei Chernyshov (Acting, November 22–December 26), Sergey Morozov (ER, starting December 26)
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

14 March
- Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election and secures his second term as president.
- The Moscow Manege fire.
16 March - Arkhangelsk explosion.
9 May - Assassination of the Pro-Russian Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny.
13 August–29 August - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and wins 27 gold, 27 silver and 38 bronze medals.
29 August - Alu Alkhanov succeeds Kadyrov as President of Chechnya following elections.
1 September - Beslan school siege: Chechen separatists take over 1,000 hostages at a school in North Ossetia–Alania.
3 September - Beslan school siege: Russian troops storm the school. As a result of the siege, over 330 people, including 186 children, were killed.

26 December - 9 Russians are among the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Sport

2004 Summer Olympics - Afina - 3rd place

Undated

The Alexander Nevsky prize, a Russian national historical-literary competition is established.

Births

28 March – Anna Shcherbakova, figure skater
14 April – Anastasia Tarakanova, figure skater
23 June – Alexandra Trusova, figure skater
6 December – Lala Kramarenko, rhythmic gymnast^{[citation needed]}

Notable deaths

February

13 February - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 52, Chechen politician.^{[citation needed]}
22 February - David Neiman, 82, Russian-born American rabbi, archaeologist and theologian.

May

9 May - Akhmad Kadyrov
22 May - Mikhail Voronin, gymnast (born 1945)^{[citation needed]}

June

11 June – Galina Serdyukovskaya, hygienist, academic and politician (born 1921)

References

1 2 3 4 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 656–660. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ ""Putin meets angry Beslan mothers", BBC News". 2005-09-02. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
↑ "About the prize". www.alexander-nevsky.ru. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
↑ Anna Shcherbakova at the International Skating Union
↑ Anastasia Tarakanova at the International Skating Union
↑ Alexandra Trusova at the International Skating Union
↑ king, saqib. "lala kramarenko". olympics.com.
↑ "Rabbi David Neiman, 82; Scholar in Jewish History, Bible Studies". Los Angeles Times. 2004-03-06. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
↑ Myers, Steven Lee (9 May 2004). "Chechen President is killed in bombing at holiday". New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
↑ Ivanovich Popov, Valery (2022). Kuchma, Vladislav Remirovich (ed.). "Этапы развития гигиены детей и подростков: научное и педагогическое наследие академика Г.Н. Сердюковской (обзор литературы)" [Stages of development of hygiene of children and adolescents: scientific and pedagogical heritage of academician G.N. Serdyukovskaya (literature review)]. Health Sciences (in Russian) (7): 783–786. doi:10.47470/0016-9900-2022-101-7-783-786. Retrieved 5 July 2025.

External links

[Cassell's_Chronology-1] 1 2 3 4 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 656–660. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[2] ""Putin meets angry Beslan mothers", BBC News". 2005-09-02. Retrieved 2008-04-19.

[3] "About the prize". www.alexander-nevsky.ru. Retrieved 2024-08-06.

[4] Anna Shcherbakova at the International Skating Union

[5] Anastasia Tarakanova at the International Skating Union

[6] Alexandra Trusova at the International Skating Union

[7] , saqib. "lala kramarenko". olympics.com.

[8] "Rabbi David Neiman, 82; Scholar in Jewish History, Bible Studies". Los Angeles Times. 2004-03-06. Retrieved 2019-02-04.

[9] Myers, Steven Lee (9 May 2004). "Chechen President is killed in bombing at holiday". New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2024.

[10] Ivanovich Popov, Valery (2022). Kuchma, Vladislav Remirovich (ed.). "Этапы развития гигиены детей и подростков: научное и педагогическое наследие академика Г.Н. Сердюковской (обзор литературы)" [Stages of development of hygiene of children and adolescents: scientific and pedagogical heritage of academician G.N. Serdyukovskaya (literature review)]. Health Sciences (in Russian) (7): 783–786. doi:10.47470/0016-9900-2022-101-7-783-786. Retrieved 5 July 2025.

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2004 in Russia

Incumbents

Governors

Events

Sport

Undated

Births

Notable deaths

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See also

References

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