← 2000 1999 1998 2001 in Russia → 2002 2003 2004
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See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Events from the year 2001 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov

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.^[1]
• 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)