1904 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Nicholas II
• Chairman of the Committee of Ministers - Sergei Witte

Events

• Battle of Chemulpo Bay
• Battle of Liaoyang
• Battle of Port Arthur
• 1904 Moscow tornado
• Russo-Japanese War
• Siege of Port Arthur

Births

• 22 January
• * George Balanchine, Russian-born American choreographer
• * Arkady Gaidar, children's writer
• 2 February – Valery Chkalov, Soviet test pilot
• 21 February – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union
• 4 March – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American physicist
• 1 April – Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet general
• 6 May – Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born Israeli engineer
• 10 July - Haim Ben-Asher, Russian-born Israeli politician
• 24 July – Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Soviet admiral
• 28 July – Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 12 August - Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

Deaths

• - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer.
• - Emanuel Schiffers, Russian chess player
• Maria A. Neidgardt, courtier