2000 in Russia

The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Russia.

Incumbents

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