2002 in Russia

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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

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

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.  652–653. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.
2. Whitehouse, David (13 May 2002). "Russia's space dreams abandoned". BBC . Retrieved 15 April 2008.
3. "Investigation Report AX001-1-2/02 MAY 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
4. ""Cash plea for space impact study", BBC News". 8 October 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
5. Marcy Slane (December 2008). "ICON DESIGN – The three Ps: people, process and problem solving". Dynamic Graphics + Create Magazine. Retrieved 23 March 2011.