1904 in Russia
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Events from the year 1904 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 February â Battle of Chemulpo Bay: a naval engagement at Chemulpo Bay in Korea between Russian and Japanese forces at the start of the Russo-Japanese War.[1]
- Battle of Liaoyang
- Battle of Port Arthur
- 1904 Moscow tornado
- 8 February â The Russo-Japanese War begins with a surprise Japanese attack on Port Arthur.[2]
- Siege of Port Arthur
Births
- 22 January
- George Balanchine, Russian-born American choreographer (died 1983)[3]
- Arkady Gaidar, children's writer (died 1941)[4]
- 2 February â Valery Chkalov, Soviet test pilot (died 1938)[5]
- 21 February â Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1980)[6]
- 4 March â George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American physicist (died 1968)[7]
- 1 April â Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet general (died 1945)[8]
- 6 May â Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born Israeli engineer (died 1984)[9]
- 10 July - Haim Ben-Asher, Russian-born Israeli politician (died 1998)[10]
- 24 July â Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Soviet admiral (died 1974)[11]
- 28 July â Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)[12]
- 12 August - Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (died 1918)
Deaths
- 15 July [O.S. 2 July] 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer. (b. 1860)[13]
- 12 December [O.S. 29 November] 1904 - Emanuel Schiffers, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
- Maria A. Neidgardt, courtier (b. 1831)
