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2003 in Russia

Events from the year 2003 in Russia.

Incumbents
Events
March • March 23 — A referendum in the break-away republic of Chechnya approves a new constitution. April • April 17 — Assassination of Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party and critic of President Vladimir Putin. July • July 2 — 36-year-old billionaire oil baron Roman Abramovich buys the English football club Chelsea for £140million. October • October 25 — Arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chairman of the YUKOS oil company, on charges of fraud. • December 7 — President Putin's United Russia party wins the largest number of seats in the legislative election. ==Births==
Births
• January 23 — Apollinariia Panfilova, pair skater • March 7 — Polina Kostiukovich, Russian pair skater • April 30 — Misha Smirnov, singer, producer-songwriter • July 4 — Polina Bogusevich, singer ==Deaths==
Deaths
January • January 8 — Kir Nesis, marine biologist and malacologist (b. 1934) • January 11 — Yuri Tishkov, professional footballer, sports agent and commentator (b. 1971) • January 26 — Valeriy Brumel, high jumper (men's Olympic high jump medals: 1960 silver, 1964 gold) (b. 1942) • January 29 • Natalia Dudinskaya, prima ballerina (b. 1912) • Yevgeniya Sidorova, alpine skier (b. 1930) February • February 5 — Antonina Shuranova, stage, television and film actress (b. 1936) • February 14 — Grigory Mkrtychan, ice hockey goalkeeper (b. 1925) • February 19 — Igor Gorbachyov, actor, theater director and pedagogue (b. 1927) • February 23 — Pavel Lebeshev, cinematographer (b. 1940) March • March 5 — Dzhabrail Yamadayev, Chechen rebel field commander (b. 1970) • March 8 — Eduard Izotov, film actor (b. 1936) • March 10 — Marina Ladynina, stage and film actress (b. 1908) • March 15 — Yevgeny Belyayev, cross-country skier (b. 1954) • March 24 — Yevgeny Klevtsov, cyclist (b. 1929) • March 28 — Aleksey Kuznetsov, cross-country skier (b. 1929) • March 29 • Kerim Kerimov, engineer and general (b. 1917) • Vladimir Pikalov, general (b. 1924) • March 30 — Valentin Pavlov, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1937) • March 31 — Semyon Lipkin, writer, poet and literary translator (b. 1911) April • April 6 — Aleksandr Fatyushin, film and theater actor (b. 1951) • April 17 • Sergei Yushenkov, politician (b. 1950) • Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins (b. 1950) • April 18 — Emil Loteanu, film director (b. 1936) • April 24 — Yuri Kholopov, musicologist and educator (b. 1932) • April 25 — Viktor Bushuev, weightlifter (b. 1933) • April 29 — Vasily Tolstikov, 8th First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1917) May • May 9 — Aleksey Medvedev, heavyweight weightlifter (b. 1927) • May 12 — Anatoly Dobryakov, 1st Governor of Pskov Oblast (b. 1939) • May 14 — Gennadiy Nikonov, firearm engineer (b. 1950) • May 21 — Yaroslav Golovanov, journalist, writer and science communicator (b. 1932) • May 28 — Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933) • May 30 — Zagir Ismagilov, Bashkir composer and pedagogue (b. 1917) June • June 1 — Yevgeny Matveyev, actor and film director (b. 1922) • June 3 — Petre Mshvenieradze, water polo player (b. 1929) • June 9 — German Sveshnikov, fencer (b. 1937) • June 14 — Nikolai Figurovsky, film director, screenwriter, writer and professor at VGIK (b. 1923) • June 21 — Sergei Vronsky, cinematographer (b. 1923) • June 23 — Alexander Sidelnikov, ice hockey player (b. 1950) July • July 3 — Yuri Shchekochikhin, investigative journalist, writer and liberal lawmaker (b. 1950) • July 5 — Roman Lyashenko, ice hockey player (b. 1979) • July 8 — Dimitri Sukhorukov, army general (b. 1922) • July 11 — Stepan Chervonenko, diplomat (b. 1915) • July 16 — Dmitri Vasilyev, actor, monarchist, antisemite and ultranationalist (b. 1945) • July 20 — Vladimir Krantz, painter (b. 1913) • July 24 — Iya Arepina, actress (b. 1930) August • August 2 — Vladimir Golovanov, weightlifter (b. 1938) • August 7 — Grigoriy Bondarevsky, professor, writer and historian (b. 1920) • August 14 • Viktor Ivanov, rower (b. 1930) • Lev Kerbel, sculptor (b. 1917) • August 20 — Igor Farkhutdinov, 3rd Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (b. 1950) • August 21 — Vasily Borisov, rifle shooter (b. 1922) • August 28 — Yury Saulsky, composer and author (b. 1928) September • September 5 — Kir Bulychev, science fiction writer, critic and historian (b. 1934) • September 9 — Aleksandr Moiseyev, basketball player (b. 1927) • September 18 — Sergey Smirnov, track and field athlete (b. 1960) • September 23 — Yuri Senkevich, physician and scientist (b. 1937) October • October 7 — Viktor Leonov, navy officer (b. 1916) • October 10 — Igor Borisov, rower (b. 1924) • October 26 • Elem Klimov, filmmaker (b. 1933) • Leonid Filatov, actor, director, poet and pamphleteer (b. 1946) November • November 3 • Rasul Gamzatov, Avar poet (b. 1923) • Yuri Falin, football player (b. 1937) • November 11 — Andrei Bolibrukh, mathematician (b. 1950) • November 22 — Yuri Khukhrov, realist painter, graphic artist and art teacher (b. 1932) December • December 21 — Oleg Troyanovsky, diplomat (b. 1919) • December 23 — Valentin Gavrilov, high jumper (b. 1946) • December 24 — Eugene Maltsev, painter (b. 1929) • December 26 — Ivan Petrov, bass opera singer (b. 1920) • December 30 — Vladimir Bogomolov, writer (b. 1924) • December 31 — German Apukhtin, footballer (b. 1936) ==See also==
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