2009 in Russia explained

Events from the year 2009 in the country of Russia.^[1]

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

• 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

Deaths

January

See main article: Deaths in January 2009.

• 4 January - Vladimir Repyev, 52, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1980) handball player.^[2]
• 8 January - Irène Mélikoff, 91, Russian-born French Turkologist.^[3]
• 13 January -
  • Mikhail Donskoy, 61, Russian programmer, co-developer of the first world computer chess champion (Kaissa).^[4]
  • Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, shot.^[5]

February

See main article: Deaths in February 2009.

• 21 February - Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease.^[6]

October

See main article: Deaths in October 2009.

• 20 October - Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.^[7]

Full date unknown

• Alexandra Ovchinnikova (1914–2009), road engineer and president of Yakutia^[8]

See also

• List of Russian films of 2009

Notes and References

1. News: Bungart . Victoria . Russia profile- timeline . BBC News . 26 April 2012 . 28 June 2021.
2. Web site: Первая потеря года... Владимир Репьев . 2011-02-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120319161737/http://www.skif-kuban.ru/news/231/ . March 19, 2012 . ru.
3. Web site: Turkologist Melikoff dies at 91 . Hürriyet.
4. Web site: World-famous Russian programmer dies . Tatar Inform . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140512231327/http://eng.tatar-inform.ru/news/2009/1/14/22264/ . 2014-05-12.
5. News: Critic of Chechen President Is Killed in Exile in Vienna . C. J. . Chivers . 13 January 2009 . The New York Times.
6. News: Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Math Theorist Who Clashed With Soviets, Dies at 79. Chang. Kenneth. 4 March 2009. The New York Times. 8 January 2018. 0362-4331.
7. News: Gymnast Ryazanov killed in crash . BBC Sport. October 20, 2009 .
8. (8 June 2009). Ушла из жизни бывший председатель Президиума Верховного Совета Якутской АССР Александра Овчинникова, SahkaNews (in Russian)