2001 in Russia

Events from the year 2001 in Russia.

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.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=650–652]
* 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.
* October 4 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv, Israel to Novosibirsk, Russia; 78 are killed.

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

References