2002 in Russia

none March 2023 2002 Events from the year 2002 in Russia. Incumbents President: Vladimir Putin Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov Governors 30em 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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/652 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 652–653 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. thumb|180px|right 12 May – An accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome kills eight people and destroys a Buran spacecraft.Russia's space dreams abandoned https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1985631.stm BBC 2008-04-15 2002-05-13 Whitehouse David 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.http://www.bfu-web.de/cln_003/nn_53140/EN/Publications/Investigation_20Report/2002/Report__02__AX001-1-2___C3_9Cberlingen__Report,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/Report_02_AX001-1-2_%C3%9Cberlingen_Report.pdf Investigation Report AX001-1-2/02 MAY 2004 2008-04-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070123052035/http://www.bfu-web.de/cln_003/nn_53140/EN/Publications/Investigation_20Report/2002/Report__02__AX001-1-2___C3_9Cberlingen__Report%2CtemplateId%3Draw%2Cproperty%3DpublicationFile.pdf/Report_02_AX001-1-2_%C3%9Cberlingen_Report.pdf 23 January 2007 25 September – Vitim event: a large meteorite crashes in the Vitim River basin in Siberia.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2309117.stm "Cash plea for space impact study", BBC News 2008-04-15 2002-10-08 23 October – Moscow theater hostage crisis: 40 Chechen separatists seize a theatre in Moscow taking 850 hostages. 26 October – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Russian special forces storm the theatre killing the Chechens and over 100 hostages. 1 December – Turbomilk, a graphic design company is founded in Samara.http://dynamicgraphics.com/dgm/Article/28920/index.html ICON DESIGN – The three Ps: people, process and problem solving Marcy Slane December 2008 Dynamic Graphics + Create Magazine 2011-03-23 Notable births 16 April – Dayana Kirillova, singer Notable deaths 120px|thumb|right|Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov 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) See also List of Russian films of 2002 References External links 2002 in 2002 Category:Years of the 21st century in Russia Category:2000s in Russia Russia Russia Russia