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).
Withdrawn candidates
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