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2004
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
30em 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
thumb|right|Beslan school siege: photos of the victims on the walls of the former SNO in Beslan
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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/656 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 656–660
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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4207112.stm "Putin meets angry Beslan mothers", BBC News 2008-04-19 2005-09-02
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.About the prize https://www.alexander-nevsky.ru/about-the-prize 2024-08-06 www.alexander-nevsky.ru
Births
28 March – Anna Shcherbakova, figure skater 00103103 Anna Shcherbakova
14 April – Anastasia Tarakanova, figure skater 00102762 Anastasia Tarakanova
23 June – Alexandra Trusova, figure skater 00102760 Alexandra Trusova
6 December – Lala Kramarenko, rhythmic gymnastSeptember 2022king saqib lala kramarenko https://olympics.com/en/news/meet-lala-kramarenko-russia-rising-star-rhythmic-gymnastics olympics.com
Notable deaths
March 2011
September 2022
:Category:2004 deaths Deaths in 2004
February
Deaths in February 2004
13 February - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 52, Chechen politician.September 2022
22 February - David Neiman, 82, Russian-born American rabbi, archaeologist and theologian.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-mar-06-me-passings6.5-story.html Rabbi David Neiman, 82; Scholar in Jewish History, Bible Studies Los Angeles Times 2004-03-06 2019-02-04
May
Deaths in May 2004
9 May - Akhmad KadyrovMyers Steven Lee 9 May 2004 Chechen President is killed in bombing at holiday https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/international/europe/chechen-president-is-killed-in-bombing-at-holiday.html 8 November 2024 New York Times
22 May - Mikhail Voronin, gymnast (born 1945)September 2022
June
Deaths in June 2004
11 June – Galina Serdyukovskaya, hygienist, academic and politician (born 1921)Kuchma Vladislav Remirovich Ivanovich Popov Valery 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) https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/etapy-razvitiya-gigieny-detey-i-podrostkov-nauchnoe-i-pedagogicheskoe-nasledie-akademika-g-n-serdyukovskoy-obzor-literatury Health Sciences ru 2022 7 783–786 5 July 2025 10.47470/0016-9900-2022-101-7-783-786 free
See also
List of Russian films of 2004
References
External links
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