Events from the year 1903 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Nicholas II
Events 14 January - Opening of Hotel National, Moscow dates unknown 19-21 April - the 49 Jews are killed in the Kishinev Pogrom Chernoe Znamia Estonian Chess Championship Kharovsk Klavdiievo-Tarasove Mensheviks Rahumäe cemetery Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet Zimin Opera ongoing - Central Committee compositions elected by the 1st–3rd congresses of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Births 12 January - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960) 17 April - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-born American cellist (d. 1976) 6 June - Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer (d. 1978) 11 July - Rudolf Abel, Anglo-Russian Soviet intelligence officer (d. 1971) 25 September – Mark Rothko, Russian-American abstract artist (d. 1970) 1 October – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born American pianist (d. 1989) 4 December – Lazar Lagin, Russian writer (d. 1979)
Deaths
22 May – Dmitry Gamov, Russian general and explorer (b. 1834)
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