# 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 seperatist (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)