2019 in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev

  Events

• February - The Russian military launches a nationwide tour to parade war trophies from its intervention in the Syrian Civil War.
• 2-12 March - 2019 Winter Universiade
• 5 May - Aeroflot Flight 1492 crashes and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, killing 41 people on board.
• 8 August - Nyonoksa radiation accident
• 15 August - Ural Airlines Flight 178 crashed, all on board survived.
• 7 September - Filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others have been released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.

  Deaths

• February 3, Detsl, rapper
• February 4, Evgeniy Aleksandrov, footballer
• February 8, Sergei Yursky, actor
• March 1, Zhores Alferov, scientist
• April 27, Aleksey Lebed, politician
• May 9, Sergei Dorenko, journalist

  July

• July 3 – Arseny Mironov, aeronautical engineer

  Births

• May 21, Tengku Ismail Leon Petra, son of the Muhammad V of Kelantan and Oksana Voevodina