2005 in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Fradkov

Events

• January 1: Monetization of in-kind benefits
• January 15: 2005 Dagestan Raids
• March 17: Assassination attempt of Anatoly Chubais. Vladimir Kvachkov was charged for the crime, but was acquitted by a jury.
• May 25: 2005 Moscow power blackouts
• June 4: Borozdinovskaya operation
• July 1: Makhachkala Rus bombing
• July 1: King's Gate in Kaliningrad reopens after renovation, marking the city's 750th anniversary.
• August 24–30: 1000th Anniversary of Kazan celebrations.
  • August 27: Kazan Metro opens
  • August 29: TatNeft Arena opens
• September 27: Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt expelled from Russia during passport control at Domodedovo airport. The incident is related to the conflict between the Jewish community of Moscow and the Russian Jewish Congress.
• October 1: the first meeting of the Civic Chamber of Russia
• October 3: White Army general Anton Denikin and philosopher Ivan Ilyin reburied in the Donskoy Monastery necropolis
• October 13–14: 2005 Nalchik raid
• November 4: the first National Unity Day celebration in Russia. Also, the first Russian March took place on 4 November 2005 and was the first legal far-right mass meeting in modern Russian history.
• November 17: launch of Blue Stream gas pipeline
• December 1: Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug merged with Perm Oblast to form Perm Krai.
• December 4: 2005 Moscow City Duma election. United Russia received 47.25% of the votes, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 16.75%, and Yabloko - 11.11%. The remaining parties were unable to overcome the 10 percent threshold. The turnout at the elections was 34.77% of the total registered voters.
• December 10: Russia Today begin its broadcast

Births

Main article: births in 2005

Deaths

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2005

• January 1 — Dmitry Nelyubin, cyclist (b. 1971)
• January 6 — Boris Shtokolov, singer (b. 1930)
• January 7
  • Evgeny Chuprun, realist painter (b. 1927)
  • Aleksandr Prokhorov, footballer (b. 1946)
• January 15 — Leonid Brekhovskikh, scientist (b. 1917)
• January 17 — Anatoly Kartashov, water polo player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
• January 19 — Rinat Mardanshin, motorcycle speedway rider (b. 1963)
• January 24 — Lev Saychuk, Olympic fencer (b. 1923)

February

Main article: Deaths in February 2005

• February 2 — Magomed Omarov, Deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan (b. 1947)
• February 6 — Lazar Berman, classical pianist (b. 1930)
• February 7 — Leonid Gissen, rower and Olympic medalist (b. 1931)
• February 10 — Igor Ledogorov, actor (b. 1932)
• February 11 — Vladimir Kotelnikov, electrical engineer (b. 1908)
• February 15 — Yury Morozov, football player and coach (b. 1934)
• February 24 — Galina Kreft, sprint canoer (b. 1950)
• February 28 — Evgeny Alekseev, basketball player and coach (b. 1919)

March

Main article: Deaths in March 2005

• March 2 — Viktor Kapitonov, road cyclist (b. 1933)
• March 8
  • Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen separatist leader (b. 1951)
  • Ninel Shakhova, television journalist (b. 1935)
• March 16 — Timofei Dokschitzer, trumpeter and music teacher (b. 1921)
• March 23 — Rizvan Chitigov, Chechen rebel field commander (b. 1964)
• March 26 — Klara Luchko, actress (b. 1925)

April

Main article: Deaths in April 2005

• April 10 — Anatoly Trofimov, KGB officer (b. 1940)

May

Main article: Deaths in May 2005

• May 2 — Raisa Struchkova, dancer (b. 1925)
• May 15
  • Natalya Gundareva, actress (b. 1948)
  • Vakha Arsanov, Chechen warlord (b. 1958)
• May 17 — Vladimir Stogov, weightlifter, world champion and Olympic medalist (b. 1930)
• May 22 — Vitaly Mukha, 1st Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast (b. 1936)
• May 27 — Abuzar Aydamirov, writer (b. 1933)

June

Main article: Deaths in June 2005

• June 1 — Dmitry Bystrov, footballer (b. 1967)
• June 6 — Maya Kopitseva, painter (b. 1924)
• June 23 — Nikolay Afanasevsky, diplomat (b. 1940)

July

Main article: Deaths in July 2005

• July 9 — Yevgeny Grishin, speed skater (b. 1931)
• July 20 — Nikolay Aksyonenko, former chief of the Russian Railways (b. 1949)
• July 24 — Viktor Berkovsky, bard (b. 1932)

August

Main article: Deaths in August 2005

• August 4 — Anatoly Larkin, theoretical physicist (b. 1932)
• August 6
  • Valentin Nikulin, theater and film actor (b. 1932)
  • Nikolay Abramov, footballer (b. 1950)
• August 7 — Mikhail Yevdokimov, comedian and politician (b. 1957)
• August 9 — Nikolay Serebryakov, film director (b. 1928)
• August 16 — Alexander Gomelsky, basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
• August 24 — Yuri Sarantsev, actor (b. 1928)
• August 29 — Nikolai Bakhvalov, mathematician (b. 1934)
• August 31 — Nina Ulyanenko, aviator (b. 1923)

September

Main article: Deaths in September 2005

• September 18 — Yegor Yakovlev, journalist (b. 1930)
• September 20 — Yuri Aizenshpis, music manager and producer (b. 1945)
• September 21 — Mustai Karim, Bashkir poet (b. 1919)
• September 29 — Gennady Sarafanov, cosmonaut (b. 1942)
• September 30 — Sergei Starostin, historical linguist (b. 1953)

October

Main article: Deaths in October 2005

• October 13 — Ilyas Gorchkhanov, North Caucasus warlord (b. 1967)
• October 14 — Oleg Lundstrem, composer and conductor (b. 1916)
• October 18 — Alexander Yakovlev, politician and architect of Perestroika (b. 1923)
• October 26 — Margarita Nazarova, circus performer and actress (b. 1926)
• October 29 — Valery Kokov, 1st Head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (b. 1941)

November

Main article: Deaths in November 2005

• November 2 — Yevgeny Kuznetsov, 1st Governor of Stavropol Krai (b. 1938)
• November 3 — Otto Latsis, journalist (b. 1934)
• November 7
  • Nikolay Trofimov, theater and film actor (b. 1920)
  • Mikhail Gasparov, literary theorist (b. 1935)
• November 18 — Armen Abaghian, nuclear scientist (b. 1933)
• November 19 — Karen Ter-Martirosian, theoretical physicist (b. 1922)
• November 25 — Polina Gelman, WWII flight navigator (b. 1919)

December

Main article: Deaths in December 2005

• December 5 — Vladimir Toporov, philologist (b. 1928)
• December 8 — Georgiy Zhzhanov, stage and film actor and writer (b. 1915)
• December 20 — Genrikh Fedosov, football player (b. 1932)
• December 26 — Viktor Stepanov, actor (b. 1947)

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