2006 in Russia
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Events from the year 2006 in Russia.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- January 2–5 - Gimry fighting
- February 20 – Sukhoi, Tupolev, Ilyushin, Yakovlev, Irkut, Mikoyan, six aircraft brand merged, United Aircraft Corporation has business start.[page needed]
- July 4 - 2006 Avtury ambush
- September 11 - 2006 Vladikavkaz Mi-8 crash
- September 13 - Ingush–Chechen fratricide incident
- September 15 - Minister of Health Mikhail Zurabov and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Health Protection Nikolai Gerasimenko propose reinstating the Childless tax in Russia that it used to have until the 1990s, Due to declining birth rates.[1]
- December 2 - The Tolmachevy Twins won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Bucharest, Romania
Births
[edit]- 6 January – Nikita Bedrin, racing driver
- 17 January – Anastasiia Shabotova, Russian-Ukrainian figure skater
- 26 April – Kamila Valieva, figure skater
- 22 May – Daria Usacheva, figure skater
- 25 May – Maya Khromykh, figure skater
Deaths
[edit]February
[edit]- February 14 — Valery Boldin, former assistant secretary to Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1935)
- February 15 — Andrei Petrov, composer (b. 1930)
- February 17 — Yevgeny Samoylov, actor (b. 1912)
- February 21 — Gennadiy Aygi, Chuvash poet and translator (b. 1934)
April
[edit]- April 7 — Adamas Golodets, football player and manager (b. 1933)
- April 9 — Natalia Troitskaya, operatic soprano (b. 1951)
- April 11 — Sergey Tereshchenkov, cyclist (b. 1938)
May
[edit]- May 2 — Galaktion Alpaidze, military officer (b. 1916)
- May 6 — Konstantin Beskov, footballer and coach (b. 1920)
- May 10
- Georgy Korniyenko, diplomat (b. 1925)
- Alexander Zinoviev, philosopher, writer, sociologist and journalist (b. 1922)
June
[edit]- June 2 — Vyacheslav Klykov, sculptor and nationalist politician (b. 1939)[2]
- June 17
July
[edit]- July 6 — Yuri Matochkin, 1st Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast (b. 1931)
- July 7 — Dina Kaminskaya, lawyer and human rights activist (b. 1919)[5]
- July 10 — Shamil Basayev, senior leader of the Chechen independence movement and Islamist militant (b. 1965)[6]
- July 21 — Alexander Petrenko, professional basketball player (b. 1976)
- July 23 — Arkady Veprev, 1st Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (b. 1927)
August
[edit]- August 5 — Aron Gurevich, medievalist historian (b. 1924)
- August 11 — Yevgeny Sinyayev, sprinter (b. 1948)
- August 24 — Viktor Pavlov, stage and film actor (b. 1940)
- August 30 — Igor Kio, illusionist (b. 1944)
September
[edit]- September 9 — Arkady Volsky, politician and businessman (b. 1932)
- September 14 — Andrey Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia (b. 1965)
- September 18 — Boris Snetkov, army general (b. 1925)
- September 20 — Ivan Shabunin, 1st Governor of Volgograd Oblast (b. 1935)
October
[edit]- October 7 — Anna Politkovskaya, journalist (b. 1958)
- October 16 — Anatoly Voronin, business chief of TASS news agency (b. 1951)
November
[edit]- November 7 — Lyudmila Buldakova, volleyball player (b. 1938)
- November 10 — Igor Sergeyev, 4th Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation (b. 1938)
- November 16 — Yuri Levada, sociologist and pollster (b. 1930)
- November 18 — Movladi Baisarov, Chechen warlord and former FSB special-task unit commander (b. 1966)
- November 23 — Alexander Litvinenko, spy and critic of Vladimir Putin (b. 1962)
- November 28 — Lyubov Polishchuk, actress (b. 1949)
December
[edit]- December 5 — David Bronstein, chess player (b. 1924)
- December 22
- Galina Ustvolskaya, composer (b. 1919)
- Elena Mukhina, gymnast (b. 1960)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sudakov, Dmitry (September 15, 2006). "Childless Russian families to pay taxes for their social inaction". english.pravda.ru.
- ^ "Умер скульптор Вячеслав Клыков". Lenta.ru (in Russian). 2 June 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "June 2006". Rulers.org. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ Report: Chechen Rebel chief killed Archived 18 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine CNN
- ^ Holley, Joe (15 July 2006). "Dina Kaminskaya; Lawyer Defended Soviet Dissidents". The Washington Post. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- ^ "Боевики, подорвавшиеся на собственной взрывчатке, планировали провести теракт". 1TV. 10 July 2006. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
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