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The following lists events that happened during
2000
in
Russia
.
Contents
Incumbents
Events
February
March
May
July
August
September
December
Notable births
Notable deaths
See also
References
External links
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.
[
1
]
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.
[
2
]
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.
[
1
]
July
July 2–3 — Second Chechen War:
Chechen suicide attacks
kill 43 Russian soldiers.
[
1
]
August
August 12 — The
Russian submarine K-141
Kursk
sinks in the
Barents Sea
, resulting in the
deaths
of all 118 men on board.
[
1
]
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.
[
3
]
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
)
[
4
]
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
Artyom Borovik
January 6 —
Alexey Vyzmanavin
, chess grandmaster (b.
1960
)
[
5
]
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
)
See also
List of Russian films of 2000
References
1
2
3
4
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
649–650
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
↑
McGuinness, Ross (March 16, 2009). "
Metro
". p.
30.
↑
"CNN.com - Fire rages in Moscow's giant TV tower - August 27, 2000"
.
www.cnn.com
. Archived from
the original
on 2 October 2000
. Retrieved
11 January
2022
.
↑
"Ekaterina ALEXANDROVSKAYA / Harley WINDSOR: 2016/2017"
. International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 May 2017.
↑
"Chess News"
. Playjava
. Retrieved
22 December
2021
.
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