2011_in_Russia
2011 in Russia
List of events
Events in the year 2011 in Russia.
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- January 1 - Kolavia Flight 348: Four people are killed and around 40 injured after a passenger plane explodes in Surgut in eastern Russia.[citation needed]
- January 22 - At least two people are killed in a blaze at a shopping centre in the southwest Russian city of Ufa.[1]
- 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.[2]
- January 26 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fires top airport security officials, two days after the suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.[3]
- February 9 - Serial blasts rock Russia's Grozny, at least five people are wounded.[4]
- 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.[5]
- 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.[6]
- April 18 - The Movement Against Illegal Immigration was banned by the Moscow City Court.
- 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.[7]
- May 4 - Russian security forces kill Doger Sevdet, an al-Qaeda emissary who fought alongside Chechen insurgents, in the northern Caucasus region of Russia.[8]
- 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.[9]
- 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.[citation needed]
- May 19 - The Eurasian Economic Community, led by Russia, offers Belarus a $3 billion bailout package.[10]
- 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.[11]
- June 2 - 42 people are injured and 13,000 people evacuated from settlements in Russia's Udmurt Republic following an ammo depot fire.[citation needed]
- 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.[12]
- July 20 - Beer is legally reclassified from a foodstuff to an alcoholic drink so that its sale will be more strongly controlled.[13]
- September 7 - 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: A Yak Service Yak-42 carrying the KHL hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashes near Yaroslavl, Russia, killing 44.[14]
Popular culture
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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.
Main article: births in 2011
Further information: Category:2011 births
Further information: Category:2011 deaths and Deaths in 2011
January
Main article: Deaths in January 2011
- January 1 -
- Nikolay Abramov, 26, Russian footballer.[15]
- George Alexandrovich Ball, 83, Russian writer.[16]
- January 4 - Chrysanth Chepil, 73, Russian Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Vyatka-Slobodskoy.[17]
- January 6 - Pyotr Sumin, 64, Russian politician, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (1996–2010).[18]
- January 31 - Nikolay Dorizo, 87, Russian poet.[19]
February
Main article: Deaths in February 2011
- February 3 - Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.[20]
- February 24 - Sergei Nikitich Kovalev, 91, Russian designer of nuclear submarines.[21]
- February 25 - Valery Bezruchenko, 70, Russian clarinetist and music teacher.[22]
March
Main article: Deaths in March 2011
- March 4 - Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness.[23]
- March 13 - Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host.[24]
- March 14 - Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) athlete.[25]
- March 21 - Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness.[26]
- March 25 - Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist.[27]
- March 26 - Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack.[28]
- March 30 - Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR.[29]
- March 31 - Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal.[30]
April
Main article: Deaths in April 2011
- April 1 - George Gryaznov, 77, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke.[31]
- April 3 - Yevgeny Lyadin, 84, Russian footballer.[32]
- April 6 - Igor Birman, 85, Russian-born American writer and economist.[33]
- April 10 - Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer.[34]
- April 27 - Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist.[35]
- April 28 - Yulia Rumyantseva, 42, Russian editor and film producer, suicide by jumping.[36]
- April 29 - Vladimir Krainev, 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, aortic aneurysm.[37]
May
Main article: Deaths in May 2011
- May 2 -
- Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor.[38]
- Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.[39]
- May 8 - Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.[40]
- May 19 - Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.[41]
- May 22 - Nina Yablonskaya, 46, Russian businesswoman and beauty salon director.[42]
June
Main article: Deaths in June 2011
- June 7 - Maksud Sadikov, 48, Russian Islamic scholar and theologian, shot.[citation needed]
- June 10 - Yuri Budanov, 47, Russian military officer and war criminal, shot.[43]
- June 15 - Pavel Stolbov, 81, Russian gymnast, 1956 Olympic gold medalist.[44]
- June 18 - Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian human rights activist, after long illness.[45]
- June 20 -
- Magomet Isayev, 83, Russian Esperantist, translator and linguist.[46]
- Vladimir Pettay, 38, Russian football referee, plane crash.[47]
- June 23 - Vladislav Achalov, 65, Russian general and activist.[48]
July
Main article: Deaths in July 2011
- July 7 - Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter.[49]
- July 14 - Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist.[50]
- July 19 - Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer.[51]
- July 21 - Yevgeny Lopatin, 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) weightlifter.[52]
- July 22 - Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness.[53]
- July 27 - Eduard Rozovsky, 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man, White Sun of the Desert), car accident.[54]
August
Main article: Deaths in August 2011
- August 2 -
- Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (since 2006).[55]
- Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok.[56]
- August 3 - Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, 68, Russian pianist.[57]
- August 14 - Yekaterina Golubeva, 44, Russian actress.[58]
- August 27 - Iya Savvina, 75, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.[59]
- August 30 - Alla Bayanova, 97, Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia, cancer.[60]
- August 31 - Valery Rozhdestvensky, 72, Soviet cosmonaut.[61]
September
Main article: Deaths in September 2011
- September 29 -
- Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian film director (Seventeen Moments of Spring), People's Artist of the USSR.[62]
- Vera Popkova, 68, Russian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).[63]
December
Main article: Deaths in December 2011
- December 24 - Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess Grandmaster.[64]
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