1909 in Russia

Events from the year 1909 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Nicholas II
 * Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Pyotr Stolypin

Events

 * 20 April - Russian intervention in Persia begins
 * 11 May - Novonikolayevsk Fire
 * 24 October - Racconigi Bargain
 * 29 October - foundation of Kiev Society of Aeronautics
 * 14 November - first tram line opened in Pskov
 * Release of the first Russo-Balt Type C car
 * Foundation of Nizhnevartovsk

Births

 * May - Gunsyn Tsydenova, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (d. 1994)
 * 18 July - Andrei Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1957–1985), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (de jure head of state, 1985–1988)
 * 21 August - Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and physicist

Deaths

 * 14 January - Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Russo-Japanese War commander (born 1848)
 * 23 February - Nadezhda Trubetskaya, philanthropist (born 1812)
 * 13 December - Innokenty Annensky, poet, playwright and translator, critic (born 1855)