2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships (Чемпионат России по лёгкой атлетике в помещении 2001) was the 10th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Russia. It was held on 16–18 February at the Alexander Gomelsky Universal Sports Hall CSKA in Moscow. A total of 28 events (14 for men and 14 for women) were contested over the three-day competition. It was used for selection of the Russian team for the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Three individual championship records were set at the competition: Lyudmila Galkina won the women's long jump in, Tatyana Lebedeva won the women's triple jump in , and Olga Kotlyarova set a time of 50.72 seconds to win the women's 400 metres.

The Russian Combined Events Indoor Championships was held separately on 16–18 February in Chelyabinsk at the Ural State University of Physical Culture arena. In the decathlon, fourth placer Nikolai Averyanov set a Russian under-23 record of 5571 points.

International team selection
Following the results of the championships, taking into account the qualifying standards, the Russian team for the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships included:

Men

 * 60 m: Sergey Bychkov, Dmitriy Vasilev
 * 200 m: Oleg Sergeyev
 * 400 m: Boris Gorban, Andrey Semyonov
 * 4 × 400 m relay: Boris Gorban, Andrey Semyonov, Ruslan Mashchenko, Aleksandr Ladeyshchikov, Dmitry Forshev
 * 800 m: Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Sergey Kozhevnikov
 * 1500 m: Vyacheslav Shabunin
 * 60 m hurdles: Evgeny Pechonkin, Andrey Kislykh‡
 * High jump: Vyacheslav Voronin, Yaroslav Rybakov
 * Pole vault: Pavel Gerasimov
 * Long jump: Yevgeniy Tretyak‡, Vitaliy Shkurlatov, Vladimir Malyavin
 * Triple jump: Igor Gavrilenko
 * Shot put: Pavel Chumachenko
 * Heptathlon: Lev Lobodin

Women

 * 60 m: Marina Kislova, Larisa Kruglova
 * 200 m: Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Natalya Mikhaylovskaya
 * 400 m: Olga Kotlyarova, Olesya Zykina
 * 4 × 400 m relay: Olga Kotlyarova, Olesya Zykina, Yuliya Sotnikova, Yuliya Nosova, Natalya Khrushcheleva, Natalya Antyukh
 * 800 m: Yelena Afanasyeva, Svetlana Cherkasova
 * 1500 m: Natalya Gorelova, Olga Kuznetsova‡
 * 3000 m: Olga Yegorova, Yelena Zadorozhnaya
 * 60 m hurdles: Svetlana Laukhova, Mariya Koroteyeva‡
 * High jump: Yuliya Lyakhova, Yelena Gulyayeva
 * Pole vault: Svetlana Feofanova, Yelena Isinbayeva
 * Long jump: Lyudmila Galkina, Tatyana Kotova
 * Triple jump: Tatyana Lebedeva, Oksana Rogova
 * Shot put: Larisa Peleshenko, Svetlana Krivelyova
 * Pentathlon: Yelena Prokhorova†, Natalya Roshchupkina†

† Had exemption for selection and allowed not to compete at the national championships ‡ Later withdrew from the international competition