2002 in Russia

← 2001 2000 1999 2002 in Russia → 2003 2004 2005
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See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Events from the year 2002 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov

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)
• 19 September – Sergei Bodrov Jr., actor (born 1971)

See also

• List of Russian films of 2002

References

External links

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