2011 in Russia
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Events in the year 2011 in Russia.
Incumbents
- President of Russia – Dmitry Medvedev (United Russia)
- Prime Minister of Russia – Vladimir Putin (United Russia)
Events
- 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]
- January 26 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fires top airport security officials, two days after the suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.[5][6]
- February 9 - Serial blasts rock Russia's Grozny, at least five people are wounded.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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.[9]
- 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.[10]
- May 4 - Russian security forces kill Doger Sevdet, an al-Qaeda emissary who fought alongside Chechen insurgents, in the northern Caucasus region of Russia.[11]
- 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.[12]
- 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.[13]
- May 19 - The Eurasian Economic Community, led by Russia, offers Belarus a $3 billion bailout package.[14]
- 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.[15]
- June 2 - 42 people are injured and 13,000 people evacuated from settlements in Russia's Udmurt Republic following an ammo depot fire.[16]
- 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.[17]
- July 20 - Beer is legally reclassified from a foodstuff to an alcoholic drink so that its sale will be more strongly controlled.[18]
- September 7 - Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: A Yak Service Yak-42 carrying the KHL hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashes near Yaroslavl, Russia, killing 44.[19]
Popular culture
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Sports
- January 5 - Russia men's national junior ice hockey team won the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
- May - The Russian professional basketball team UNICS Kazan wins the Eurocup Basketball competition.
Notable deaths
- January 1 - Nikolay Abramov, 26, Russian footballer.[20]
- January 1 - George Alexandrovich Ball, 83, Russian writer.[21]
- January 4 - Chrysanth Chepil, 73, Russian Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Vyatka-Slobodskoy.[22]
- January 6 - Pyotr Sumin, 64, Russian politician, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (1996–2010).[23]
- January 31 - Nikolay Dorizo, 87, Russian poet.[24]
- February 3 - Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.[25]
- February 24 - Sergei Nikitich Kovalev, 91, Russian designer of nuclear submarines.[26]
- February 25 - Valery Bezruchenko, 70, Russian clarinetist and music teacher.[27]
- March 4 - Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness.[28]
- March 13 - Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host.[29]
- March 14 - Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) athlete.[30]
- March 21 - Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness.[31]
- March 25 - Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist.[32]
- March 26 - Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack.[33]
- March 30 - Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR.[34]
- March 31 - Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal.[35]
- April 1 - George Gryaznov, 77, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke.[36]
- April 3 - Yevgeny Lyadin, 84, Russian footballer.[37]
- April 6 - Igor Birman, 85, Russian-born American writer and economist.[38]
- April 10 - Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer.[39]
- April 27 - Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist.[40]
- April 28 - Yulia Rumyantseva, 42, Russian editor and film producer, suicide by jumping.[41]
- April 29 - Vladimir Krainev, 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, aortic aneurysm.[42]
- May 2 - Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor.[43]
- May 2 - Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.[44]
- May 8 - Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.[45]
- May 19 - Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.[46]
- May 22 - Nina Yablonskaya, 46, Russian businesswoman and beauty salon director.[47]
- June 7 - Maksud Sadikov, 48, Russian Islamic scholar and theologian, shot.[48]
- June 10 - Yuri Budanov, 47, Russian military officer and war criminal, shot.[49]
- June 15 - Pavel Stolbov, 81, Russian gymnast, 1956 Olympic gold medalist.[50]
- June 18 - Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian human rights activist, after long illness.[51]
- June 20 - Magomet Isayev, 83, Russian Esperantist, translator and linguist.[52]
- June 20 - Vladimir Pettay, 38, Russian football referee, plane crash.[53]
- June 23 - Vladislav Achalov, 65, Russian general and activist.[54]
- July 7 - Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter.[55]
- July 14 - Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist.[56]
- July 19 - Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer.[57]
- July 21 - Yevgeny Lopatin, 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) weightlifter.[58]
- July 22 - Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness.[59]
- July 27 - Eduard Rozovsky, 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man, White Sun of the Desert), car accident.[60]
- August 2 - Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (since 2006).[61]
- August 2 - Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok.[62]
- August 3 - Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, stroke.[citation needed]
- August 14 - Yekaterina Golubeva, 44, Russian actress.[63]
- August 27 - Iya Savvina, 75, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.[64]
- August 30 - Alla Bayanova, 97, Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia, cancer.[65]
- August 31 - Valery Rozhdestvensky, 72, Soviet cosmonaut.[66]
- September 29 - Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian film director (Seventeen Moments of Spring), People's Artist of the USSR.[67]
- September 29 - Vera Popkova, 68, Russian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).[68]
- December 24 - Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess Grandmaster.[69]
See also
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