Candidates in the 2004 Russian presidential election

This article contains the list of candidates associated with the 2004 Russian presidential election.

Registered candidates
Candidates are listed in the order they appear on the ballot paper (alphabetical order in Russian).

Rejected nominations

 * Anzori Iosifovich Aksentiev-Kikalishvilli — Chairman of the All-Russian Party of People.
 * Viktor Gerashchenko (campaign) — Deputy of the State Duma, former Chairman of the State Bank of the USSR and Central Bank of Russia.
 * Igor Alexandrovich Smykov
 * German Sterligov (campaign) — former owner of the exchange "Alisa"

Declared candidates who withdrew without registering

 * Vladimir Bryntsalov (campaign) — Deputy of the State Duma, 1996 presidential candidate.
 * Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Possible candidates who did not run
The following individuals were included in some polls, were referred to in the media as possible candidates or had publicly expressed interest long before the elections but never announced that they would run.


 * Dmitry Ayatskov
 * Alexander Barkashov
 * Boris Berezovsky
 * Viktor Chernomyrdin
 * Anatoly Chubais
 * Sergey Dorenko
 * Umar Dzhabrailov
 * Boris Fyodorov
 * Yegor Gaidar
 * Stanislav Govorukhin
 * German Gref
 * Boris Gryzlov
 * Vladimir Gusinsky
 * Igor Ivanov
 * Sergey Ivanov
 * Mikhail Kasyanov
 * Sergey Kiriyenko
 * Alexei Kudrin
 * Mikhail Lapshin
 * Alexander Lebed (died 28 April 2002)
 * Alexander Lukashenko
 * Yury Luzhkov
 * Valentina Matviyenko
 * Boris Nemtsov
 * Ella Pamfilova
 * Alexey Podberezkin
 * Nikolay Patrushev
 * Yevgeny Primakov
 * Dmitry Rogozin
 * Vladimir Rushailo
 * Vladimir Ryzhkov
 * Savostyanov
 * Gennady Seleznev
 * Vladimir Shamanov
 * Lyubov Sliska
 * Yegor Stroyev
 * Sergey Shoygu
 * Yury Skuratov
 * Sergei Stepashin
 * Konstantin Titov
 * Aman Tuleyev
 * Alexander Voloshin
 * Gennady Zyuganov
 * Grigory Yavlinsky
 * Boris Yeltsin