2002 in Russia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Events
- 21 January – Commercial television station TV6 closed down by the Russian government.[1]
- 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.
- 12 May – An accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome kills eight people and destroys a Buran spacecraft.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 25 September – Vitim event: a large meteorite crashes in the Vitim River basin in Siberia.[4]
- 23 October – Moscow theater hostage crisis: 40 Chechen separatists seize a theatre in Moscow taking 850 hostages.[1]
- 26 October – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Russian special forces storm the theatre killing the Chechens and over 100 hostages.[1]
- 1 December – Turbomilk, a graphic design company is founded in Samara.[5]
Notable births
- 16 April – Dayana Kirillova, singer
Notable deaths
- 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)
