Candidates in the 2000 Russian presidential election

This article contains the list of candidates associated with the 2000 Russian presidential election.

A total of 33 candidates were nominated; 15 submitted the application forms to the Central Electoral Committee, and ultimately 12 candidates were registered.

Registered candidates
Candidates are listed in the order they appear on the ballot paper (alphabetical order in Russian).

Possible candidates who did not run
The following individuals were included in some polls, were referred to in the media as possible candidates or had publicly expressed interest long before the elections but never announced that they would run.


 * Viktor Anpilov
 * Dmitry Ayatskov
 * Sergey Baburin
 * Alexander Barkashov
 * Vladimir Bryntsalov
 * Viktor Chernomyrdin
 * Anatoly Chubais
 * Yegor Gaidar
 * Mikhail Gorbachev
 * Tatyana Dyachenko
 * Boris Fyodorov
 * Svyatoslav Fyodorov
 * Ilyukhin
 * Anatoly Kulikov
 * Mikhail Lapshin
 * Alexander Lebed
 * Alexander Lukashenko
 * Yury Luzhkov
 * Albert Makashov
 * Boris Nemtsov
 * Nikolaev
 * Yevgeny Primakov
 * Alla Pugacheva
 * Alexander Rutskoy
 * Eduard Rossel
 * Gennady Seleznyov
 * Sergey Shoygu
 * Martin Shakkum
 * Yuri Skokov
 * Anatoly Sobchak (died 20 February 2000)
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
 * Sergei Stepashin
 * Yegor Stroyev
 * Sysoyev
 * Nikolai Travkin
 * Boris Yeltsin -constitutionally barred from running