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.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/649|url-access=registration|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/649 649–650]}}
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.{{cite news|title=Metro|last=McGuinness|first=Ross|date=March 16, 2009|pages=30}}
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/27/moscow.fire/index.html |title = CNN.com - Fire rages in Moscow's giant TV tower - August 27, 2000 |website=www.cnn.com |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001002030519/http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/27/moscow.fire/index.html |archive-date=2 October 2000 |url-status=dead}}

=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){{cite web |url= http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101102.htm |title= Ekaterina ALEXANDROVSKAYA / Harley WINDSOR: 2016/2017 |publisher= International Skating Union |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170520024922/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101102.htm |archive-date= 20 May 2017 |url-status= unfit }}
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

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January 6 — Alexey Vyzmanavin, chess grandmaster (b. 1960){{cite web|url=http://www.playjava.com/chess_news.html|title=Chess News|publisher=Playjava|access-date=22 December 2021}}
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)