2002 in Russia
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{{Year in Russia|2002}}
Events from the year 2002 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
- 21 January – Commercial television station TV6 closed down by the Russian government.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/652|url-access=registration|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/652 652–653]}}
- 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. File:7-й логотип Россия.svg
- 12 May – An accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome kills eight people and destroys a Buran spacecraft.{{ cite news | title=Russia's space dreams abandoned | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1985631.stm | publisher=BBC | access-date=2008-04-15 | date=2002-05-13 | last=Whitehouse | first=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.{{cite web|url=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 |title=Investigation Report AX001-1-2/02 MAY 2004 |access-date=2008-04-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=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 |archive-date=23 January 2007 }}
- 25 September – Vitim event: a large meteorite crashes in the Vitim River basin in Siberia.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2309117.stm|title="Cash plea for space impact study", BBC News|access-date=2008-04-15 | date=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.{{cite web|url=http://dynamicgraphics.com/dgm/Article/28920/index.html|title=ICON DESIGN – The three Ps: people, process and problem solving|author=Marcy Slane|date=December 2008|publisher=Dynamic Graphics + Create Magazine|accessdate=2011-03-23}}
Notable births
- 16 April – Dayana Kirillova, singer
Notable deaths
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- 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
References
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External links
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