2008 in Russia

January 1 — Oleg Tolmachev, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1919)
January 3
- Aleksandr Abdulov, film and stage actor (b. 1953)^[2]
- Nikolay Puzanov, Russian Soviet biathlete and 1968 Olympic Gold medalist (b. 1938)^[3]
January 4 — Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan, footballer (b. 1940)
January 7 — Andrey Kurennoy, triple jumper (b. 1972)
January 10 — Mikhail Minin, Russian soldier who raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag Building in 1945 (b. 1922)
January 12
- Gennady Bachinsky, radio talk show host and producer (b. 1971)
- Anatoly Kyarov, head of the Kabardino-Balkaria police (b. 1957)
January 15 — Artyom Sergeyev, Soviet Major general and adopted son of Joseph Stalin (b. 1921)
January 26 — Igor Dmitriev, film and theatre actor (b. 1927)
January 27
- Anna Loginova, fashion model and later trained bodyguard (b. 1978)
- Valery Shumakov, surgeon and transplantologist (b. 1931)

February 4 — Nikolay Popov, engineer and designer of the T-80 (b. 1931)
February 7 — Guy Severin, academician and engineer (b. 1926)
February 9 — Georgy Yegorov, Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Navy (b. 1918)
February 12 — Boris Chirikov, physicist (b. 1928)
February 15 — Mikhail Solomentsev, Soviet statesman (b. 1913)
February 16 — Boris Khmelnitsky, theatre and movie actor (b. 1940)
February 19
- Natalia Bessmertnova, prima ballerina (b. 1941)
- Yegor Letov, poet, musician, singer-songwriter, audio engineer and conceptual artist (b. 1964)
February 25 — Vladimir Troshin, film and theater actor and singer (b. 1926)
February 27 — Anna Andreeva, textile designer (b. 1917)
February 29 — Vitaly Fedorchuk, 6th Minister of Interior Affairs of the Soviet Union (b. 1918)

March 1 — Andrey Tissin, sprint canoer (b. 1975)
March 13 — Iosif Boyarsky, animator and director (b. 1917)
March 15 — Yury Tsuranov, olympic skeet shooter (b. 1936)
March 21
- Gadzhi Abashilov, journalist and chief of VGTRK in Dagestan (b. 1950)
- Anna Alchuk, poet and visual artist (b. 1955)
- Ilyas Shurpayev, journalist (b. 1975)
March 25 — Sergey Kramarenko, football player (b. 1946)
March 31 — Nikolai Baibakov, Soviet statesman and economist (b. 1911)

April 7 — Andrei Tolubeyev, stage and film actor (b. 1945)
April 8 — Nadezhda Rumyantseva, actress (b. 1930)
April 13 — Khasan Yandiyev, deputy head of the Ingushetia Supreme Court (b. 1948)
April 17
- Zoya Krakhmalnikova, writer and dissident (b. 1929)
- Mikhail Tanich, poet (b. 1923)
April 18 — Refat Appazov, rocket scientist (b. 1920)
April 26 — Moisey Feigin, artist (b. 1904)

June 3 — Grigory Romanov, 9th First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee (b. 1923)
June 22
- Natalia Bekhtereva, neuroscientist and psychologist (b. 1924)
- Fyodor Uglov, surgeon (b. 1904)
June 24 — Viktor Kuzkin, ice hockey defender (b. 1940)
June 25 — Alla Kazanskaya, stage and film actress (b. 1920)
June 28 — Irina Baronova, ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
June 29 — Vladimir Vinogradov, banker (b. 1955)

July 6 — Nonna Mordyukova, actress (b. 1925)
July 11 — Anatoly Pristavkin, writer and public figure (b. 1931)
July 15
- Yuri Mikhaylov, speed skater (b. 1930)
- Gennadi Volnov, basketball player (b. 1939)
July 25 — Mikhail Pugovkin, comic actor (b. 1923)
July 28 — Anatoly Tyazhlov, 1st Governor of Moscow Oblast (b. 1942)

September 2 — Abdulla Alishayev, journalist and writer (b. 1969)
September 10 — Yuri Osipyan, physicist (b. 1931)
September 14 — Gennady Troshev, colonel general and former commander of the North Caucasus Military District (b. 1947)
September 16 — Andrei Volkonsky, composer (b. 1933)
September 24 — Ruslan Yamadayev, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma (b. 1961)

November 2 — Joseph Alliluyev, cardiologist and a grandson of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (b. 1945)
November 4 — Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, 8th Chairwoman of the Presidium of the Little Khural of the Tuvan People's Republic (b. 1912)
November 20 — Boris Fyodorov, politician and economist (b. 1958)
November 26 — Vitaly Karayev, mayor of Vladikavkaz (b. 1962)
November 29 — Georgi Vyun, football player and coach (b. 1944)

December 2 — Pyotr Latyshev, 1st Russian Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District (b. 1948)
December 5 — Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (b. 1929)
December 9 — Yuri Glazkov, cosmonaut (b. 1939)
December 15 — Valentin Berlinsky, cellist (b. 1925)
December 17 — Nina Varlamova, mayor of Kandalaksha (b. 1954)
December 20 — Olga Lepeshinskaya, ballerina (b. 1916)
December 31 — Kazbek Pagiyev, mayor of Vladikavkaz (b. 1959)

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