2000 in Russia

The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Russia.

Incumbents

President: Vladimir Putin (from May 7, acting President until May 7)
Prime Minister: Vladimir Putin (until May 7), Mikhail Kasyanov (from May 7)

Events

February

February 4 — Second Chechen War: Bombing of Katyr-Yurt.
February 5 — Second Chechen War: Novye Aldi massacre.
February 6 — Second Chechen War: Battle of Grozny, Chechen capital Grozny falls to Russian troops.
February 29–March 1 — Second Chechen War: Battle of Hill 776.

March

March — Second Chechen War: Komsomolskoye massacre.
March 1 — Second Chechen War: Grozny OMON fratricide incident.
March 4–25 — Second Chechen War: Battle of Komsomolskoye.
March 26 — Presidential elections: Vladimir Putin is elected president.
March 29 — Second Chechen War: Zhani-Vedeno ambush.

May

May 24 — The Russian Government threatens to bomb the Taliban in Afghanistan due to their support for Chechen rebels.

July

July 2–3 — Second Chechen War: Chechen suicide attacks kill 43 Russian soldiers.

August

August 12 — The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
August 14 — Tsar Nicholas II and several members of his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
August 28 — Moscow's Ostankino Tower set ablaze by fire caused by a short circuit.

September

September 15–October 1 — Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, winning 32 gold, 28 silver and 29 bronze medals.

December

December 25 — Russia changes their national anthem back to the old Soviet Union anthem, with newer lyrics.

Notable births

January 1 — Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater (d. 2020)
January 26 — Angélique Abachkina, ice dancer
February 9 — Serafima Sakhanovich, figure skater
April 12 — Maria Sotskova, figure skater
November 8 — Anastasia Skoptsova, ice dancer

Notable deaths

January 6 — Alexey Vyzmanavin, chess grandmaster (b. 1960)
January 7 — Makhmud Esambayev, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer (b. 1924)
January 20 — Izabella Yurieva, singer (b. 1899)
February 1 — Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, Chechen separatist (b. 1967)
February 3 — Yuriy Lituyev, athlete (b. 1925)
February 9 — Yevgeny Andreyev, Air Force colonel and balloonist (b. 1926)
February 15 — Vladimir Utkin, engineer and rocket scientist (b. 1923)
February 20 — Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1937)
February 22 — Arkady Khait, writer, satirist and screenwriter (b. 1938)
February 23 — Nikolay Gulyayev, football player and coach (b. 1915)
February 24 — Boris Zaytsev, ice hockey goaltender (b. 1937)
February 25 — Pyotr Breus, water polo player (b. 1927)
February 27 — Jurij A. Treguboff, author (b. 1913)
February 29 — Nikita Moiseyev, mathematician (b. 1917)
March 9 — Artyom Borovik, journalist and media magnate (b. 1960)
March 19 — Mikhail Yefremov, politician and diplomat (b. 1911)
March 29 — Yevgeny Feofanov, boxer (b. 1937)
March - William Pokhlyobkin, writer (born 1923)
April 5 — Irina Sebrova, Air Force pilot and officer (b. 1914)
April 10 — David Klyshko, physicist (b. 1929)
April 15 — Irina Gubanova, ballerina and film actress (b. 1940)
April 17 — Pyotr Glebov, film actor (b. 1915)
April 19 — Sergey Zalygin, writer (b. 1913)
April 25 — Alla Larionova, theater and film actress (b. 1931)
April 28 — Sergey Khristianovich, mechanics scientist (b. 1908)
May 15 — Alfred Kuchevsky, ice hockey defenceman (b. 1931)
May 17 — Angelina Stepanova, stage and film actress (b. 1905)
May 19 — Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
May 24 — Oleg Yefremov, actor and theatre producer (b. 1927)
June 2
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov, ophthalmologist and politician (b. 1927)
- Mikhail Schweitzer, film director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
June 13 — Yefim Gamburg, animation director (b. 1925)
June 15 — Grigori Gorin, playwright and writer (b. 1940)
June 18 — Boris Vasilyev, cyclist (b. 1937)
July 4 — Yuri Klinskikh, singer, songwriter and arranger (b. 1964)
July 16 — Igor Domnikov, journalist and editor (b. 1959)
July 21
- Vladimir Novikov, statesman (b. 1907)
- Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, painter and graphic artist (b. 1915)
July 24 — Anatoli Firsov, ice hockey player (b. 1941)
July 26 — Dalkhan Khozhaev, Chechen historian, field commander, brigadier general and author (b. 1961)
July 27 — Vladimir Lisunov, nonconformist artist (b. 1940)
August 1 — Galina Sergeyeva, actress (b. 1914)
August 8 — Anatoli Romashin, film and theater actor and director (b. 1931)
August 14 — Rostislav Vovkushevsky, realist painter (b. 1917)
August 25 — Valeriy Priyomykhov, actor, film director and author (b. 1943)
September 2 — Gennady Smirnov, footballer (b. 1955)
September 14 — Igor Luzhkovsky, swimmer (b. 1938)
September 16 — Alexandra Petrova, model and beauty pageant contestant (b. 1980)
September 20 — Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
September 22 — Alexei Kostrikin, mathematician (b. 1929)
October 2 — Nikolai Fedorenko, philologist, orientalist and diplomat (b. 1912)
October 8 — Vsevolod Larionov, stage and film actor (b. 1928)
October 10 — Nikolai Lyashchenko, army general (b. 1910)
November 5 — Gleb Savinov, painter and art teacher (b. 1915)
November 7 — Boris Zakhoder, poet and children's writer (b. 1918)
November 18
- Ilya Starinov, military officer (b. 1900)
- Konstantin Krizhevsky, football defender (b. 1926)
November 20
- Nikolay Dollezhal, engineer (b. 1899)
- Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, animation director, animator and artist (b. 1927)
November 30 — Olga Bogaevskaya, painter and graphic artist (b. 1915)
December 14 — Pavel Plotnikov, Air Force general (b. 1920)