Events in the year 2011 in Russia .
Incumbents
Events
2011 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 .[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]
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Births
Notable deaths
Lyudmila Gurchenko
January
February
March
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
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
June
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 -
June 23 - Vladislav Achalov , 65, Russian general and activist.[ 48]
July
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 [ 54]
August
August 2 -
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
December
See also
References
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