2001 in Russia

none thumb|The Soyuz Soyuz TM-32 Taxi Flight crewmembers. 2001 Events from the year 2001 in Russia. Incumbents President: Vladimir Putin Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov Governors 30em 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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 650–652 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 References External links 2001 in 2001 Russia Category:Years of the 21st century in Russia Category:2000s in Russia Russia Russia