2005 in Russia

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Fradkov

• January 1: Monetization of in-kind benefits
• January 15: 2005 Dagestan Raids
• March 17: Assassination attempt of Anatoly Chubais. Vladimir Kvachkov was charged for the crime, but was acquitted by a jury.{{cite news|title=Присяжные оправдали полковника Квачкова|url=http://old.lenta.ru/news/2010/08/20/kvachkov/|newspaper=Lenta.ru|date=21 August 2010|access-date=7 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310194037/http://old.lenta.ru/news/2010/08/20/kvachkov/|archive-date=10 March 2012|url-status=dead}}
• May 25: 2005 Moscow power blackouts
• June 4: Borozdinovskaya operation
• July 1: Makhachkala Rus bombing
• July 1: King's Gate in Kaliningrad reopens after renovation, marking the city's 750th anniversary.
• August 24–30: 1000th Anniversary of Kazan celebrations.
• August 27: Kazan Metro opens
• August 29: TatNeft Arena opens
• September 27: Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt expelled from Russia during passport control at Domodedovo airport. The incident is related to the conflict between the Jewish community of Moscow and the Russian Jewish Congress.
• October 1: the first meeting of the Civic Chamber of Russia
• October 3: White Army general Anton Denikin and philosopher Ivan Ilyin reburied in the Donskoy Monastery necropolis
• October 13–14: 2005 Nalchik raid
• November 4: the first National Unity Day celebration in Russia. Also, the first Russian March took place on 4 November 2005 and was the first legal far-right mass meeting in modern Russian history.
• November 17: launch of Blue Stream gas pipeline
• December 1: Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug merged with Perm Oblast to form Perm Krai.
• December 4: 2005 Moscow City Duma election. United Russia received 47.25% of the votes, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 16.75%, and Yabloko - 11.11%. The remaining parties were unable to overcome the 10 percent threshold. The turnout at the elections was 34.77% of the total registered voters.
• December 10: Russia Today begin its broadcast

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{{Main|Deaths in January 2005}}

• January 1 — Dmitry Nelyubin, cyclist (b. 1971){{cite web | url=http://www.vz.ru/society/2009/5/8/284860.html | title=Ubil bez vidimogo povoda | publisher=Vzglyad, 8 May 2009 | language=ru | access-date=2009-05-10 }}
• January 6 — Boris Shtokolov, singer (b. 1930)
• January 7
• Evgeny Chuprun, realist painter (b. 1927)
• Aleksandr Prokhorov, footballer (b. 1946)
• January 15 — Leonid Brekhovskikh, scientist (b. 1917)

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|author1=Mikhalevsky, P |author2=Godin, O |author3=Naugolnykh, K |author4=Dubrovsky, N |year=2005

|title=Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh

|journal=Physics Today

|volume=58 |issue=11 |pages=70

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|doi=10.1063/1.2155769 |doi-access=free

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• January 17 — Anatoly Kartashov, water polo player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
• January 19 — Rinat Mardanshin, motorcycle speedway rider (b. 1963)
• January 24 — Lev Saychuk, Olympic fencer (b. 1923)

{{Main|Deaths in February 2005}}

• February 2 — Magomed Omarov, Deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan (b. 1947){{cite news|title=Minister assassinated in Dagestan|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2005/02/2008410121534114422.html|accessdate=30 December 2012|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=2 February 2005}}
• February 6 — Lazar Berman, classical pianist (b. 1930){{cite news |author1=Allan Kozinn |author-link1=Allan Kozinn |title=Lazar Berman, Pianist Known for Powerful Style, Dies at 74 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/arts/music/lazar-berman-pianist-known-for-powerful-style-dies-at-74.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=9 February 2005 |page=C 19}}
• February 7 — Leonid Gissen, rower and Olympic medalist (b. 1931)
• February 10 — Igor Ledogorov, actor (b. 1932)
• February 11 — Vladimir Kotelnikov, electrical engineer (b. 1908)
• February 15 — Yury Morozov, football player and coach (b. 1934)
• February 24 — Galina Kreft, sprint canoer (b. 1950)
• February 28 — Evgeny Alekseev, basketball player and coach (b. 1919)

{{Main|Deaths in March 2005}}

• March 2 — Viktor Kapitonov, road cyclist (b. 1933)
• March 8 — Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen separatist leader (b. 1951){{cite web |url=http://www.economist.com/node/3738936 | title=Aslan Maskhadov | publisher=The Economist | date=10 March 2005 | access-date=6 June 2015}}
• March 16 — Timofei Dokschitzer, trumpeter and music teacher (b. 1921)
• March 23 — Rizvan Chitigov, Chechen rebel field commander (b. 1964)
• March 26 — Klara Luchko, actress (b. 1925)

{{Main|Deaths in April 2005}}

• April 10 — Anatoly Trofimov, KGB officer (b. 1940)

{{Main|Deaths in May 2005}}

• May 2 — Raisa Struchkova, dancer (b. 1925)
• May 15
• Natalya Gundareva, actress (b. 1948){{cite web | author = | date = | url = http://www.rusactors.ru/g/gundareva/index.shtml|title = Natalya Georgyevna Gundareva| publisher = www.rusactors.ru| accessdate = 2012-03-01}}
• Vakha Arsanov, Chechen warlord (b. 1958)
• May 17 — Vladimir Stogov, weightlifter, world champion and Olympic medalist (b. 1930)
• May 22 — Vitaly Mukha, 1st Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast (b. 1936)
• May 27 — Abuzar Aydamirov, writer (b. 1933)

{{Main|Deaths in June 2005}}

• June 1 — Dmitry Bystrov, footballer (b. 1967)
• June 6 — Maya Kopitseva, painter (b. 1924)
• June 23 — Nikolay Afanasevsky, diplomat (b. 1940)

{{Main|Deaths in July 2005}}

• July 9 — Yevgeny Grishin, speed skater (b. 1931)
• July 20 — Nikolay Aksyonenko, former chief of the Russian Railways (b. 1949){{cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/592671|title=Николай Аксененко умер без комментариев|website=Kommersant|lang=ru|date=2005-07-21|access-date=2021-11-27|archive-date=2019-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220185917/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/592671|url-status=live}}
• July 24 — Viktor Berkovsky, bard (b. 1932)

{{Main|Deaths in August 2005}}

• August 4 — Anatoly Larkin, theoretical physicist (b. 1932)
• August 6
• Valentin Nikulin, theater and film actor (b. 1932){{Cite web|url=http://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=157612&cid=54|title=Телеканал "Культура". Выбор Валентина Никулина|date=July 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706120804/http://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=157612&cid=54 |archive-date=2012-07-06 }}
• Nikolay Abramov, footballer (b. 1950)
• August 7 — Mikhail Yevdokimov, comedian and politician (b. 1957){{Cite web |url=http://www.vremya.ru/2003/162/12/78984.html |title=Россия не понимает юмора. В новом сезоне телеканал делает ставку на проверенные формы вещания |access-date=2022-09-23 |archive-date=2018-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716082324/http://www.vremya.ru/2003/162/12/78984.html |url-status=live }}
• August 9 — Nikolay Serebryakov, film director (b. 1928)
• August 16 — Alexander Gomelsky, basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
• August 24 — Yuri Sarantsev, actor (b. 1928)
• August 29 — Nikolai Bakhvalov, mathematician (b. 1934)
• August 31 — Nina Ulyanenko, aviator (b. 1923)

{{Main|Deaths in September 2005}}

• September 18 — Yegor Yakovlev, journalist (b. 1930)
• September 20 — Yuri Aizenshpis, music manager and producer (b. 1945)
• September 21 — Mustai Karim, Bashkir poet (b. 1919)
• September 29 — Gennady Sarafanov, cosmonaut (b. 1942)
• September 30 — Sergei Starostin, historical linguist (b. 1953)

{{Main|Deaths in October 2005}}

• October 13 — Ilyas Gorchkhanov, North Caucasus warlord (b. 1967)
• October 14 — Oleg Lundstrem, composer and conductor (b. 1916)
• October 18 — Alexander Yakovlev, politician and architect of Perestroika (b. 1923)
• October 26 — Margarita Nazarova, circus performer and actress (b. 1926)
• October 29 — Valery Kokov, 1st Head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (b. 1941)

{{Main|Deaths in November 2005}}

• November 2 — Yevgeny Kuznetsov, 1st Governor of Stavropol Krai (b. 1938)
• November 3 — Otto Latsis, journalist (b. 1934)
• November 7
• Nikolay Trofimov, theater and film actor (b. 1920)
• Mikhail Gasparov, literary theorist (b. 1935)
• November 18 — Armen Abaghian, nuclear scientist (b. 1933)
• November 19 — Karen Ter-Martirosian, theoretical physicist (b. 1922)
• November 25 — Polina Gelman, WWII flight navigator (b. 1919)

{{Main|Deaths in December 2005}}

• December 5 — Vladimir Toporov, philologist (b. 1928)
• December 8 — Georgiy Zhzhanov, stage and film actor and writer (b. 1915)
• December 20 — Genrikh Fedosov, football player (b. 1932)
• December 26 — Viktor Stepanov, actor (b. 1947)

• List of Russian films of 2005

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