Events from the year 2001 in Russia.
Incumbents President: Vladimir Putin Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov
Governors
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
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