Notable Deaths
- January 1 - Alexey Vyzmanavin, Chess grandmaster (born 1960)
- February 20 - Anatoly Sobchak, politician (born 1937)
- February 29 - Nikita Moiseyev, mathematician (born 1917)
- March 9 - Artyom Borovik, journalist and media magnate (born 1960)
- March - William Pokhlyobkin, writer (born 1923)
- April 19 - Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin, writer (born 1913)
- May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (born 1933)
- May 24 - Oleg Yefremov, actor (born 1927)
- June 2 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, ophthalmologist and politician (born 1927)
- July 24 - Anatoli Firsov, ice hockey player (born 1941)
- August 1 - Galina Sergeyeva, actress (born 1914)
- November 20 - Nikolay Dollezhal, engineer (born 1899)
- David Klyshko, physicist (born 1929)
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