2009 in Russia
Events from the year 2009 in the country of Russia.
Incumbents
- President: Dmitry Medvedev
- Prime Minister: Vladimir Putin
- Minister of Defence: Anatoliy Serdyukov
Events
January
- 15 January - 2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision
February
- 15 February - New Star incident
May
- 12–16 May - Eurovision Song Contest 2009
June
- 3 June - 2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado
- 16 June - 1st BRIC summit
- 26 June-6 July - Caucasus 2009
July
- 6 July - The Obama–Medvedev Commission is announced.
August
October
- 11 October - Moscow City Duma election, 2009
November
- 1 November - 2009 Yakutia Ilyushin Il-76 crash
- 27 November - 2009 Nevsky Express bombing
December
- 5 December - Lame Horse fire
Deaths
January
- 4 January - Vladimir Repyev, 52, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning handball player.
- 8 January - Irène Mélikoff, 91, Russian-born French Turkologist.
- 13 January -
- * Mikhail Donskoy, 61, Russian programmer, co-developer of the first world computer chess champion.
- * Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, shot.
February
- 21 February - Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease.
October
- 20 October - Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.
Full date unknown
- Alexandra Ovchinnikova, road engineer and president of Yakutia