Events from the year
2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
in the country of
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...
.
Incumbents
*President:
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician and lawyer who has served as Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Medvedev was also President of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and Prime Mini ...
*Prime Minister:
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
*Minister of Defence:
Anatoliy Serdyukov
Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov (; born 8 January 1962) is a Russian politician and businessman. He was Russia's Minister of Defense from 15 February 2007 to 6 November 2012, and made several major reforms in the Russian military. He has worked a ...
Events
January
*15 January -
2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision
February
*15 February -
New Star incident
May
*12–16 May -
Eurovision Song Contest 2009
The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the 54th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Moscow, Russia, following the country's victory at the with the song "Believe (Dima Bilan song), Believe" by Dima Bilan. Organised by the Eu ...
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
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2009 Sayano–Shushenskaya power station accident
On 17 August 2009, a Water turbine, turbine in the hydroelectric power station of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam near Sayanogorsk in Russia failed catastrophically, killing 75 people and severely damaging the plant. The turbine hall was flooded, an ...
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
Births
Deaths
January
*4 January -
Vladimir Repyev, 52, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...
) 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
Kaissa () was a chess program developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. It was named so after Caissa, the goddess of chess. Kaissa became the first world computer chess champion in 1974 in Stockholm.
History
By 1967, a computer program by ...
).
**
Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President
Ramzan Kadyrov
Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov (born 5 October 1976) is a Russian politician and current head of the Chechen Republic. He was formerly affiliated with the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Chechen independence movement, through his father who was the ...
, shot.
February
*21 February -
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease.
October
*20 October -
Yuri Ryazanov
Yuri Sergeyevich Ryazanov (; 21 March 1987 – 20 October 2009) was a Russian artistic gymnast. He was the 2009 World All-Around bronze medalist, the 2009 Russian All-Around national champion, and the 2007 & 2009 European All-Around bronze me ...
, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.
Full date unknown
*
Alexandra Ovchinnikova (1914–2009), road engineer and president of Yakutia
[(8 June 2009)]
Ушла из жизни бывший председатель Президиума Верховного Совета Якутской АССР Александра Овчинникова
, ''SahkaNews'' (in Russian)
See also
*
List of Russian films of 2009
A list of films produced in Russia in 2009 (see 2009 in film).
2009
See also
* 2009 in Russia
References
External links
Russian films of 2009at the Internet Movie Database
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2009
Films
A f ...
References
External links
{{Year in Europe, 2009
Years of the 21st century in Russia
2000s in Russia