diff --git a/gensim/__init__.py b/gensim/__init__.py
index 0e3f3db720..7ccf9d307f 100644
--- a/gensim/__init__.py
+++ b/gensim/__init__.py
@@ -6,11 +6,7 @@
 from gensim import parsing, matutils, interfaces, corpora, models, similarities, summarization
 import logging
 
-try:
-    __version__ = __import__('pkg_resources').get_distribution('gensim').version
-except:
-    __version__ = '?'
-
+__version__ = '1.0.1'
 
 class NullHandler(logging.Handler):
     """For python versions <= 2.6; same as `logging.NullHandler` in 2.7."""
@@ -19,4 +15,4 @@ def emit(self, record):
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('gensim')
 if len(logger.handlers) == 0:	# To ensure reload() doesn't add another one
-    logger.addHandler(NullHandler())
\ No newline at end of file
+    logger.addHandler(NullHandler())