2001 in Russia

The Soyuz Soyuz TM-32 Taxi Flight crewmembers.

Events from the year 2001 in Russia.

← 2000 1999 1998 2001 in Russia → 2002 2003 2004
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov

Governors

• Amur Oblast: Anatoly Belonogov (CPRF, until May 20), Leonid Korotkov (Independent, starting May 20)
• Arkhangelsk Oblast: Anatoly Yefremov (Unity / ER)
• Astrakhan Oblast: Anatoly Guzhvin (ER)
• Belgorod Oblast: Yevgeny Savchenko (ER)
• Bryansk Oblast: Yury Lodkin (CPRF)
• Chelyabinsk Oblast: Pyotr Sumin (SJP / ER ally)
• Irkutsk Oblast: Boris Govorin (ER)
• Ivanovo Oblast: Vladimir Tikhonov (CPRF)
• Kaliningrad Oblast: Vladimir Yegorov (Independent / ER ally)
• Kaluga Oblast: Anatoly Artamonov (ER)
• Kemerovo Oblast: Aman Tuleyev (Independent / ER ally)
• Kirov Oblast: Vladimir Shaklein (Independent)
• Kostroma Oblast: Viktor Shershunov (CPRF)
• Kurgan Oblast: Oleg Bogomolov (Independent)
• Kursk Oblast: Aleksandr Mikhailov (CPRF)
• Leningrad Oblast: Valery Serdyukov (Independent / ER ally)
• Lipetsk Oblast: Oleg Korolyov (ER)
• Magadan Oblast: Valentin Tsvetkov (Independent)
• Moscow Oblast: Boris Gromov (ER)
• Murmansk Oblast: Yuri Yevdokimov (ER)
• Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Ivan Sklyarov (ER, until August 8), Gennady Khodyrev (CPRF / Independent, starting August 8)
• Novgorod Oblast: Mikhail Prusak (DPR / ER)
• Novosibirsk Oblast: Viktor Tolokonsky (Independent)
• Omsk Oblast: Leonid Polezhayev (ER)
• Orenburg Oblast: Alexey Chernyshev (APR)
• Oryol Oblast: Yegor Stroyev (Independent / ER ally)
• Penza Oblast: Vasily Bochkarev (Independent / ER ally)
• Pskov Oblast: Yevgeny Mikhailov (LDPR)
• Rostov Oblast: Vladimir Chub (ER)
• Ryazan Oblast: Vyacheslav Lyubimov (CPRF)
• Sakhalin Oblast: Igor Farkhutdinov (Independent)
• Samara Oblast: Konstantin Titov (SPS)
• Saratov Oblast: Dmitry Ayatskov (ER)
• Smolensk Oblast: Aleksandr Prokhorov (CPRF)
• Tambov Oblast: Oleg Betin (ER)
• Tomsk Oblast: Viktor Kress (Independent / ER ally)
• Tula Oblast: Vasily Starodubtsev (CPRF)
• Tver Oblast: Vladimir Platov (ER)
• Tyumen Oblast: Leonid Roketsky (Independent, until January 26), Sergey Sobyanin (Independent/ER, starting January 26)
• Ulyanovsk Oblast: Vladimir Shamanov (ER)
• Vladimir Oblast: Nikolay Vinogradov (CPRF)
• Volgograd Oblast: Nikolai Maksyuta (CPRF)
• Vologda Oblast: Vyacheslav Pozgalyov (ER)
• Voronezh Oblast: Vladimir Kulakov (Independent / ER ally)
• Yaroslavl Oblast: Anatoly Lisitsyn (ER)
• Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Nikolay Volkov (Independent / ER ally)

Events

• February 18 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years.
• March 23 - The Russian space station Mir re-enters the atmosphere near Nadi, Fiji, and falls into the Pacific Ocean.
• April 14 - Gazprom corporation took over NTV television channel
• May 9 - 56th Victory Day
• May 15 - Closure of Varshavsky railway station, Saint Petersburg
• June - Unified State Exam introduced
• June 15 - Declaration of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation signed
• June 29 - Good Night, Little Ones! airs its very last episode on Channel One Russia due to economic problems with the station.
• July 3 - A Vladivostokavia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia, killing 145.
• July 16 - The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
• August 27 - Russian Football Premier League is created.
• October 4 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv, Israel to Novosibirsk, Russia; 78 are killed.
• October 17 - President Vladimir Putin ordered to close the Lourdes SIGINT station, Cuba and Cam Ranh Air Force Base in Vietnam
• December 1 - United Russia is created.

Notable births

• March 30 – Anastasia Potapova, tennis player
• June 21 - Alexandra Obolentseva, chess player
• October 2 - Rodion Amirov, ice hockey player (died 2023)
• October 28 - Ekaterina Starshova, actress
• November 4 - Maksim Mukhin, football player

Notable deaths

• January 11 - Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (born 1906)
• March 17 - Boris Rauschenbach, physicist and rocket engineer (born 1915)
• May 7 - Boris Ryzhy, poet (born 1974)
• May 12 - Alexei Tupolev, aircraft designer (born 1925)
• May 13 - Sergey Afanasyev, engineer and politician (born 1918)
• May 15 - Georgy Shakhnazarov, politician (born 1924)
• May 19 - Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, World War II pilot (born 1916)
• May 30 - Nikolai Korndorf, composer (born 1947)
• June 5 - Vasily Kolotov, weightlifter (born 1944)
• July 1 - Nikolay Basov, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
• July 17 - Timur Apakidze, aviator (born 1954)
• August 10
  • Vladimir Bougrine, painter (born 1938)
  • Stanislav Rostotsky, film director (born 1922)
• August 22 - Tatyana Averina, speed skater (born 1950)
• September 10 - Alexey Suetin, International Grandmaster of chess (born 1926)
• October 4 - Ahron Soloveichik, Russian-born American Rabbi (born 1917)
• October 10 - Vasily Mishin, rocket engineer (born 1917)
• October 23 - Georgy Vitsin, actor (born 1918)
• November 28 - Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, scientist (born 1909)
• November 29 - Viktor Astafiyev, writer (born 1924)
• December 1 - Pavel Sadyrin, footballer (born 1942)
• December 12 - Alexander Khmelik, creator of Yeralash (born 1925)
• December 23 - Dimitri Obolensky, historian (born 1918)
• December 27 - Boris Rybakov, historian (born 1908)

See also

• List of Russian films of 2001