2011 in Russia

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Events in the year 2011 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President of Russia – Dmitry Medvedev (United Russia)
• Prime Minister of Russia – Vladimir Putin (United Russia)

Events

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lays flowers in front of the remains of the rear stabilizer of the Yak-42 that carried the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey squad.

• January 1 - Kolavia Flight 348: Four people are killed and around 40 injured after a passenger plane explodes in Surgut in eastern Russia.[1]
• January 22 - At least two people are killed in a blaze at a shopping centre in the southwest Russian city of Ufa.[2][3]
• January 24 - 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing: At least 35 people are killed and 130 injured after a suicide bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in the Russian capital Moscow.[4][5]
• January 26 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fires top airport security officials, two days after the suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.[6][7]
• February 9 - Serial blasts rock Russia's Grozny, at least five people are wounded.[8]
• February 28 - Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy corporation, explains that the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant has been delayed in opening due to damage to the nuclear reactor's cooling pumps.[9]
• March 1 - As part of the Russian police reform, the Russian law enforcers' name was changed from "Militsiya" (militia) to "Politsiya" (police).
• March 27 - Russia switching to permanent daylight saving time (DST) under a decree President Dmitry Medvedev signed a month earlier.[10]
• May 2 - The UN Security Council fails to agree a statement to condemn the killing of Syrian protesters, as Russia and China block a statement proposed by Britain, France, Germany and Portugal that would have condemned the violence, which has led to hundreds of dead, and backed calls for an independent investigation.[11]
• May 4 - Russian security forces kill Doger Sevdet, an al-Qaeda emissary who fought alongside Chechen insurgents, in the northern Caucasus region of Russia.[12]
• May 6 - Russia launches an urgent rescue mission after the nuclear-powered icebreaker Taymyr in its fleet develops a nuclear leak in the frozen seas of the Arctic and was forced to abandon its mission.[13]
• May 6 - A court in Russia sentences ultranationalist Nikita Tikhonov to life imprisonment for the murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in 2009.[14]
• May 19 - The Eurasian Economic Community, led by Russia, offers Belarus a $3 billion bailout package.[15]
• May 30 - Documents discovered in a Russian archive suggest that Adolf Hitler ordered Rudolf Hess to go to the United Kingdom to negotiate with Winston Churchill over a World War II peace deal in 1941.[16]
• June 2 - 42 people are injured and 13,000 people evacuated from settlements in Russia's Udmurt Republic following an ammo depot fire.[17]
• June 3 - 57 people are injured, and 28,000 people have been forced to evacuate, following an explosion at an army munitions depot in Russia's western Ural Mountains region.[18]
• July 20 - Beer is legally reclassified from a foodstuff to an alcoholic drink so that its sale will be more strongly controlled.[19]
• September 7 - Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: A Yak Service Yak-42 carrying the KHL hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashes near Yaroslavl, Russia, killing 44.[20]

Popular culture

Sports

• January 5 - Russia men's national junior ice hockey team won the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
• May - The Russian professional basketball team UNICS Kazan wins the Eurocup Basketball competition.

Notable deaths

Lyudmila Gurchenko

• January 1 - Nikolay Abramov, 26, Russian footballer.[21]
• January 1 - George Alexandrovich Ball, 83, Russian writer.[22]
• January 4 - Chrysanth Chepil, 73, Russian Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Vyatka-Slobodskoy.[23]
• January 6 - Pyotr Sumin, 64, Russian politician, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (1996–2010).[24]
• January 31 - Nikolay Dorizo, 87, Russian poet.[25]
• February 3 - Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.[26]
• February 24 - Sergei Nikitich Kovalev, 91, Russian designer of nuclear submarines.[27]
• February 25 - Valery Bezruchenko, 70, Russian clarinetist and music teacher.[28]
• March 4 - Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness.[29]
• March 13 - Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host.[30]
• March 14 - Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) athlete.[31]
• March 21 - Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness.[32]
• March 25 - Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist.[33]
• March 26 - Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack.[34]
• March 30 - Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR.[35]
• March 31 - Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal.[36]
• April 1 - George Gryaznov, 77, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke.[37]
• April 3 - Yevgeny Lyadin, 84, Russian footballer.[38]
• April 6 - Igor Birman, 85, Russian-born American writer and economist.[39]
• April 10 - Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer.[40]
• April 27 - Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist.[41]
• April 28 - Yulia Rumyantseva, 42, Russian editor and film producer, suicide by jumping.[42]
• April 29 - Vladimir Krainev, 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, aortic aneurysm.[43]
• May 2 - Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor.[44]
• May 2 - Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.[45]
• May 8 - Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.[46]
• May 19 - Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.[47]
• May 22 - Nina Yablonskaya, 46, Russian businesswoman and beauty salon director.[48]
• June 7 - Maksud Sadikov, 48, Russian Islamic scholar and theologian, shot.[49]
• June 10 - Yuri Budanov, 47, Russian military officer and war criminal, shot.[50]
• June 15 - Pavel Stolbov, 81, Russian gymnast, 1956 Olympic gold medalist.[51]
• June 18 - Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian human rights activist, after long illness.[52]
• June 20 - Magomet Isayev, 83, Russian Esperantist, translator and linguist.[53]
• June 20 - Vladimir Pettay, 38, Russian football referee, plane crash.[54]
• June 23 - Vladislav Achalov, 65, Russian general and activist.[55]
• July 7 - Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter.[56]
• July 14 - Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist.[57]
• July 19 - Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer.[58]
• July 21 - Yevgeny Lopatin, 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) weightlifter.[59]
• July 22 - Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness.[60]
• July 27 - Eduard Rozovsky, 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man, White Sun of the Desert), car accident.[61]
• August 2 - Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (since 2006).[62]
• August 2 - Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok.[63]
• August 3 - Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, stroke.[64]
• August 14 - Yekaterina Golubeva, 44, Russian actress.[65]
• August 27 - Iya Savvina, 75, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.[66]
• August 30 - Alla Bayanova, 97, Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia, cancer.[67]
• August 31 - Valery Rozhdestvensky, 72, Soviet cosmonaut.[68]
• September 29 - Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian film director (Seventeen Moments of Spring), People's Artist of the USSR.[69]
• September 29 - Vera Popkova, 68, Russian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).[70]
• December 24 - Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess Grandmaster.[71]

See also

• List of Russian films of 2011

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