1902 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Nicholas II

  Events

• 1 July - The Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding opens in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, under the name of Mykolayiv Industrial Technical School.
• July - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia is created a Knight of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, during the latter's visit to Russia.
• 29 August - Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia is married to her second cousin Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark.
• November - The periodical Novy Put is launched in Saint Petersburg by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius.
• December - The Russian News Agency TASS begins life as the Commercial Telegraph Agency.

  Births

• 21 May - Anatole Litvak, filmmaker
• 11 October - Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Slovenian-born Israeli politician (died 1955

  Deaths

• 2 January - Prince Balakishi Arablinski, Azerbaijani general in the Russian Imperial Army
• June - Isaac Andreyevich Chatzkin, Russian-Jewish physician