2009_in_Russia
2009 in Russia
List of events
Events from the year 2009 in the country of Russia.[1]
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- 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
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
Main article: births in 2009
Further information: Category:2009 births
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Further information: Category:2009 deaths and Deaths in 2009
January
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
Main article: Deaths in February 2009
- 21 February - Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease.[6]
October
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]
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- "Первая потеря года... Владимир Репьев" (in Russian). Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- "World-famous Russian programmer dies". Tatar Inform. Archived from the original on 2014-05-12.
- Chivers, C. J. (13 January 2009). "Critic of Chechen President Is Killed in Exile in Vienna". The New York Times.
- Chang, Kenneth (4 March 2009). "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Math Theorist Who Clashed With Soviets, Dies at 79". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- "Gymnast Ryazanov killed in crash". BBC Sport. October 20, 2009.
- (8 June 2009). Ушла из жизни бывший председатель Президиума Верховного Совета Якутской АССР Александра Овчинникова Archived 2012-11-24 at the Wayback Machine, SahkaNews (in Russian)
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