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

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

 * 17 August
 * 2009 Nazran bombing
 * 2009 Sayano–Shushenskaya power station accident

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

January

 * 4 January - Vladimir Repyev, 52, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1980) 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 (Kaissa).
 * 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 (1914–2009), road engineer and president of Yakutia