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
• 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 of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (d. 1994)
• 1 July - Antonina Pirozhkova, civil engineer and writer (d. 2010)
• 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
• 5 September - Bernard Delfont, theatre impresario (d. 1994)
• 22 November - Mikhail Mil, helicopter manufacturer (d. 1970)

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)

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