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Events in the year 2011 in Russia .
Incumbents [ edit ]
January 1 - Kolavia Flight 348 : Four people are killed and around 40 injured after a passenger plane explodes in Surgut in eastern Russia .[ 1]
January 22 - At least two people are killed in a blaze at a shopping centre in the southwest Russian city of Ufa .[ 2] [ 3]
January 24 - 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing : At least 35 people are killed and 130 injured after a suicide bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in the Russian capital Moscow .[ 4] [ 5]
January 26 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fires top airport security officials, two days after the suicide bombing at Moscow 's Domodedovo International Airport .[ 6] [ 7]
February 9 - Serial blasts rock Russia 's Grozny , at least five people are wounded.[ 8]
February 28 - Rosatom , the Russian state nuclear energy corporation, explains that the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant has been delayed in opening due to damage to the nuclear reactor 's cooling pumps.[ 9]
March 1 - As part of the Russian police reform , the Russian law enforcers' name was changed from "Militsiya " (militia) to "Politsiya" (police).
March 27 - Russia switching to permanent daylight saving time (DST) under a decree President Dmitry Medvedev signed a month earlier.[ 10]
May 2 - The UN Security Council fails to agree a statement to condemn the killing of Syrian protesters, as Russia and China block a statement proposed by Britain , France , Germany and Portugal that would have condemned the violence, which has led to hundreds of dead, and backed calls for an independent investigation.[ 11]
May 4 - Russian security forces kill Doger Sevdet, an al-Qaeda emissary who fought alongside Chechen insurgents , in the northern Caucasus region of Russia .[ 12]
May 6 - Russia launches an urgent rescue mission after the nuclear-powered icebreaker Taymyr in its fleet develops a nuclear leak in the frozen seas of the Arctic and was forced to abandon its mission.[ 13]
May 6 - A court in Russia sentences ultranationalist Nikita Tikhonov to life imprisonment for the murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in 2009.[ 14]
May 19 - The Eurasian Economic Community , led by Russia , offers Belarus a $ 3 billion bailout package.[ 15]
May 30 - Documents discovered in a Russian archive suggest that Adolf Hitler ordered Rudolf Hess to go to the United Kingdom to negotiate with Winston Churchill over a World War II peace deal in 1941.[ 16]
June 2 - 42 people are injured and 13,000 people evacuated from settlements in Russia 's Udmurt Republic following an ammo depot fire.[ 17]
June 3 - 57 people are injured, and 28,000 people have been forced to evacuate, following an explosion at an army munitions depot in Russia 's western Ural Mountains region.[ 18]
July 20 - Beer is legally reclassified from a foodstuff to an alcoholic drink so that its sale will be more strongly controlled.[ 19]
September 7 - 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster : A Yak Service Yak-42 carrying the KHL hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashes near Yaroslavl , Russia, killing 44.[ 20]
Popular culture [ edit ]
Sports
Notable deaths [ edit ]
January 1 - Nikolay Abramov , 26, Russian footballer.[ 21]
January 1 - George Alexandrovich Ball , 83, Russian writer.[ 22]
January 4 - Chrysanth Chepil , 73, Russian Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Vyatka-Slobodskoy .[ 23]
January 6 - Pyotr Sumin , 64, Russian politician, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (1996–2010).[ 24]
January 31 - Nikolay Dorizo , 87, Russian poet .[ 25]
February 3 - Tatyana Shmyga , 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad ), People's Artist of the USSR , vascular disease.[ 26]
February 24 - Sergei Nikitich Kovalev , 91, Russian designer of nuclear submarines.[ 27]
February 25 - Valery Bezruchenko , 70, Russian clarinetist and music teacher.[ 28]
March 4 - Mikhail Simonov , 81, Russian aircraft designer , chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness.[ 29]
March 13 - Vitaly Vulf , 80, Russian theater critic and television host.[ 30]
March 14 - Eduard Gushchin , 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968 ) athlete.[ 31]
March 21 - Nikolai Andrianov , 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics , after long illness.[ 32]
March 25 - Pavel Leonov , 90, Russian naïve artist .[ 33]
March 26 - Alexander Barykin , 59, Russian musician, heart attack.[ 34]
March 30 - Lyudmila Gurchenko , 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR .[ 35]
March 31 - Vassili Kononov , 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal.[ 36]
April 1 - George Gryaznov , 77, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke.[ 37]
April 3 - Yevgeny Lyadin , 84, Russian footballer.[ 38]
April 6 - Igor Birman , 85, Russian-born American writer and economist.[ 39]
April 10 - Mikhail Rusyayev , 46, Russian footballer.[ 40]
April 27 - Igor Kon , 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist.[ 41]
April 28 - Yulia Rumyantseva , 42, Russian editor and film producer, suicide by jumping.[ 42]
April 29 - Vladimir Krainev , 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR , aortic aneurysm.[ 43]
May 2 - Alexander Lazarev , 73, Russian actor.[ 44]
May 2 - Leonid Abalkin , 80, Russian economist.[ 45]
May 8 - Galina Urbanovich , 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952 ) gymnast.[ 46]
May 19 - Vladimir Ryzhkin , 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956 ) footballer.[ 47]
May 22 - Nina Yablonskaya , 46, Russian businesswoman and beauty salon director.[ 48]
June 7 - Maksud Sadikov , 48, Russian Islamic scholar and theologian, shot.[ 49]
June 10 - Yuri Budanov , 47, Russian military officer and war criminal, shot.[ 50]
June 15 - Pavel Stolbov , 81, Russian gymnast, 1956 Olympic gold medalist.[ 51]
June 18 - Yelena Bonner , 88, Russian human rights activist, after long illness.[ 52]
June 20 - Magomet Isayev , 83, Russian Esperantist, translator and linguist.[ 53]
June 20 - Vladimir Pettay , 38, Russian football referee, plane crash .[ 54]
June 23 - Vladislav Achalov , 65, Russian general and activist.[ 55]
July 7 - Yuri Kukin , 78, Russian singer-songwriter.[ 56]
July 14 - Vladimir Kosinsky , 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist.[ 57]
July 19 - Karen Khachaturian , 90, Russian composer.[ 58]
July 21 - Yevgeny Lopatin , 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952 ) weightlifter.[ 59]
July 22 - Dmitri Furman , 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness.[ 60]
July 27 - Eduard Rozovsky , 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man , White Sun of the Desert ), car accident.[ 61]
August 2 - Asadullo Gulomov , 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (since 2006).[ 62]
August 2 - Andrey Kapitsa , 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok .[ 63]
August 3 - Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov , 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR , stroke.[ 64]
August 14 - Yekaterina Golubeva , 44, Russian actress.[ 65]
August 27 - Iya Savvina , 75, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR .[ 66]
August 30 - Alla Bayanova , 97, Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia , cancer.[ 67]
August 31 - Valery Rozhdestvensky , 72, Soviet cosmonaut.[ 68]
September 29 - Tatyana Lioznova , 87, Russian film director (Seventeen Moments of Spring ), People's Artist of the USSR .[ 69]
September 29 - Vera Popkova , 68, Russian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1968 ).[ 70]
December 24 - Vitaly Tseshkovsky , 67, Russian chess Grandmaster.[ 71]
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^ Ушла из жизни Урбанович Галина Наполеоновна
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^ новости
^ Умер Дмитрий Фурман
^ ITAR-TASS : Legendary cameraman Eduard Rozovsky died in road accident
^ Вице-премьер Таджикистана умер на стройке // KP.RU
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^ Piano virtuoso dies in Moscow — RT
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^ ПОЛИТ.РУ: Звездный городок простился с космонавтом Валерием Рождественским
^ Ъ-Новости - Умерла Татьяна Лиознова
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