Events from the year 2001 in Russia.

Incumbents

* President: Vladimir Putin * Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov

Events

* February 18 - FBI agent

Robert Hanssen Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described ...

is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years. * March 23 - The Russian space station Mir re-enters the atmosphere near

Nadi Nadi (pronounced ) is the third-largest conurbation in Fiji. It is located on the western side of the main island of Viti Levu, and had a population of 42,284 at the most recent census, in 2007. A 2012 estimate showed that the population had ...

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

, and falls into the Pacific Ocean. * April 14 -

Gazprom PJSC Gazprom ( rus, Газпром, , ɡɐzˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. As of 2019, with sales over $120 billion, it was ranked as the larges ...

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 * July 3 - A Vladivostokavia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at

Irkutsk, Russia Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is the 25th-larges ...

, 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. * August 31 - '' Good Night, Little Ones!'' airs its very last episode on Channel One Russia due to economic problems with the station. * October 4 -

Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was a commercial flight shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001, en route from Tel Aviv, Israel to Novosibirsk, Russia. The aircraft, a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154, carried 66 passeng ...

crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv, Israel to

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk (, also ; rus, Новосиби́рск, p=nəvəsʲɪˈbʲirsk, a=ru-Новосибирск.ogg) is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the Russian Census ...

, 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 Alexandra Sergeevna Obolentseva (russian: Александра Серге́евна Оболенцева; born 21 June 2001) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Obolentseva has won the World Yo ...

, chess player * October 28 -

Ekaterina Starshova Ekaterina "Katya" Igorevna Starshova (russian: Екатерина "Катя" Игоревна Старшова; born 28 October 2001) is a Russian actress known for playing the role of Polina "Pugovka" Vasnetsova in the Russian sitcom ''Daddy's ...

, actress * November 4 -

Maksim Mukhin Maksim Andreyevich Mukhin (russian: Максим Андреевич Мухин; born 4 November 2001) is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for CSKA Moscow and the Russia national team. Club career He made hi ...

, football player

Notable deaths

* January 11 -

Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, also Vera Konstantinovna (russian: link=no, Вера Константиновна Романова; 24 April 1906 – 11 January 2001), was the youngest child of Grand Duke Konstantine Konstantinovich ...

(born 1906) * March 17 -

Boris Rauschenbach Boris Viktorovich Rauschenbach (russian: Бори́с Ви́кторович Раушенба́х, translit=Borís Víktorovič Raušenbách; born Boris-Ivar Rauschenbach; , Petrograd – 27 March 2001, Moscow) was a preeminent Soviet physicist and ...

, physicist and rocket engineer (born 1915) * May 7 -

Boris Ryzhy Boris Borisovich Ryzhy (russian: Борис Борисович Рыжий; 8 September 1974 – 7 May 2001) was a Russian poet and geologist. Some poems by Ryzhy have been translated into English, Italian, German, Dutch and Serbian. He committ ...

, poet (born 1974) * May 12 - Alexei Tupolev, aircraft designer (born 1925) * May 13 -

Sergey Afanasyev Sergey Afanasyev may refer to: *Sergey Afanasyev (engineer) (1918–2001), Soviet engineer and space and defense industry executive * Sergey Afanasyev (athlete) (born 1964), Russian middle-distance runner, in 1989 European Athletics Indoor Champio ...

, 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 Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf (russian: Николáй Серге́евич Корндóрф, January 23, 1947 – May 30, 2001) was a Russian and Canadian (from 1991) composer and conductor. He was prolific both in Moscow, Russia, and in Vancouve ...

, composer (born 1947) * June 5 - Vasily Kolotov, weightlifter (born 1944) * July 1 -

Nikolay Basov Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (russian: Никола́й Генна́диевич Ба́сов; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the deve ...

, 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 Ahron (Aaron) Soloveichik ( he, אהרן סולובייצ'יק; May 1, 1917 – October 4, 2001) was a renowned Orthodox ''rosh yeshiva'', and scholar of Talmud and ''halakha''. Biography The youngest of five children, Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik was ...

, Russian-born American Rabbi (born 1917) * October 10 -

Vasily Mishin Vasily Pavlovich Mishin (russian: Васи́лий Па́влович Ми́шин) (18 January 1917 – 10 October 2001) was a Russian engineer in the Soviet Union, and a prominent rocket pioneer, best remembered for the failures in the Soviet sp ...

, rocket engineer (born 1917) * October 23 -

Georgy Vitsin Georgy Mikhailovich Vitsin (russian: Георгий Михайлович Вицин; 18 April 1917 – 22 October 2001) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1990). Biography Vitsin was born in Terijoki, former Finla ...

, actor (born 1918) * November 28 - Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, scientist (born 1909) * November 29 -

Viktor Astafiyev Viktor Petrovich Astafyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev (russian: Ви́ктор Петро́вич Аста́фьев; 1 May 1924 – 29 November 2001), was a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter. He was recognized with th ...

, writer (born 1924) * December 1 -

Pavel Sadyrin Pavel Fyodorovich Sadyrin (russian: Павел Фёдорович Садырин; 18 September 1942 – 1 December 2001) was a Soviet and Russian footballer and manager. Career Sadyrin played as a midfielder for Zvezda Perm and Zenit Leningra ...

, footballer (born 1942) * December 12 -

Alexander Khmelik Alexander Grigorievich Khmelik (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Хмелик) (September 27, 1925 – December 12, 2001) was a Soviet-Russian screenwriter, playwright and director known for his creation of the children's sketch ...

, creator of

Yeralash ''Yeralash'' ( rus, Ералаш, p=jɪrɐˈlaʂ) is a Russian children's comedy TV show and magazine. Yeralash also runs an actor studio and the "Yeralash Island" camp. The word ''eralash'' means "mixed, mishmash" or "jumble" and is taken from ...

(born 1925) * December 23 - Dimitri Obolensky, historian (born 1918) * December 27 - Boris Rybakov, historian (born 1908)

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