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 (d. 1992) 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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