- 2001 in Russia
Events from the year
2001 inRussia .Events
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February 18 -FBI agentRobert Hanssen is arrested and charged withspying for Russia for 15 years.
*March 23 - The Russian space stationMir re-enters the atmosphere nearNadi ,Fiji , and falls into thePacific Ocean .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=650–652]
*July 3 - A VladivostokaviaTupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing atIrkutsk, Russia , killing 145.
*July 16 - ThePeople's Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
*October 4 -Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route fromTel Aviv ,Israel toNovosibirsk ,Russia ; 78 are killed.Deaths
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January 11 -Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia (born1906 )
*March 17 -Boris Rauschenbach , physicist and rocket engineer (born1915 )
*May 7 -Boris Ryzhy , poet (born1974 )
*May 12 -Alexei Tupolev , aircraft designer (born1925 )
*May 13 -Sergey Afanasyev , engineer and politician (born1918 )
*May 15 -Georgy Shakhnazarov , politician (born1924 )
*May 19 -Alexei Petrovich Maresiev , World War II pilot (born1916 )
*May 30 -Nikolai Korndorf , composer (born1947 )
*June 5 -Vasily Kolotov , weightlifter (born1944 )
*July 1 -Nikolay Basov , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born1922 )
*July 17 -Timur Apakidze , aviator (born1954 )
*August 10
**Vladimir Bougrine , painter (born1938 )
**Stanislav Rostotsky , film director (born1922 )
*August 22 -Tatyana Averina , speed skater (born1950 )
*September 10 -Alexey Suetin , International Grandmaster of chss (born1926 )
*October 4 -Ahron Soloveichik , Russian-born American Rabbi (born1917 )
*October 10 -Vasily Mishin , rocket engineer (born1917 )
*October 23 -Georgy Vitsin , actor (born1918 )
*November 28 -Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy , scientist (born1909 )
*November 29 -Viktor Astafiyev , writer (born1924 )
*December 1 -Pavel Sadyrin , footballer (born1942 )
*December 23 -Dimitri Obolensky , historian (born1918 )
*December 27 -Boris Rybakov , historian (born1908 )References
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