On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

On November 30, 1992, by the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Red Terror as unlawful, which in turn led to suspension of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.

* 1831 – Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.

A Russian naval raid on Sinope, on 30 November 1853, resulted in the destruction of the Turkish fleet in the battle of Sinope.

On 5 November 1854, Russian forces tried to relieve the siege at Sevastopol and tried to defeat the Allied armies in the field in the battle of Inkerman.

/ 19 November in Russian tradition ).

On 3 November 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby ’ s in New York City for just over $ 60 million U. S. ( far surpassing his previous record of $ 17 million set in 2000 ).

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein () on 7 November 1879, in Yanovka () or Yanivka (), in the Kherson guberniya of the Russian Empire ( today's Bereslavka (; ) in the Bobrynets Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine ), a small village from the nearest post office.

In November 2005 it was announced that Led Zeppelin, and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, were the winners of the 2006 Polar Music Prize.

* Russian lexicographer Vladimir Dal ( November 10, 1801 – September 22, 1872 )

Lev Sergeyevich Termen ; ) ( – 3 November 1993 ( Léon Theremin in America ) was a Russian and Soviet inventor.

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (, Mihail Timofejevič Kalašnikov ) ( born 10 November 1919 ) is a Russian small arms designer, most famous for designing the AK-47, AKM, and AK-74 assault rifles.

Kalashnikov was born on 10 November 1919 in Kurya, Altai Krai, Russian SFSR, one of nineteen children to Timofey Aleksandrovich Kalashnikov ( 1883-1930 ) and Aleksandra Frolovna Kalashnikova ( 1884-1987 ).

On his 90th birthday on 10 November 2009, Kalashnikov was named a " Hero of the Russian Federation " and presented with a medal by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating " the brand every Russian is proud of.

In November 2002, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posted the first of a series of eprints on arXiv outlining a solution of the Poincaré conjecture.

Three years later, on 22 November 2008, the Russian government adopted a revised strategy, extending to 2030.

Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov () ( born November 22, 1942 ) is a Russian economist and politician of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.

Single with Russian folk song, " The Carnival Is Over ", appeared in November, which reached No. 1 in both Australia and the UK.

During the Russian Civil War, Tsaritsyn was under Soviet control starting from November 1917.

Following the November Uprising in 1831, Vilnius University was closed and Russian repressions halted the further development of the city.

The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the first mention of the word " White Russian " in the sense of a cocktail as appearing in California's Oakland Tribune on 21 November 1965.

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

In November 2010, one of Yeats works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night, painted in 1948 and previously owned by novelist Graham Greene, sold for nearly £ 350, 000 at a Christie's auction in London.

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

Laurence Sterne ( 24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768 ) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

Louisa May Alcott ( November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888 ) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.

* November 6 – Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist ( b. 1929 )

* November 18 – Hilda Nickson, née Hilda Pressley, British novelist ( d. 1977 )

* November 28 – Walter Havighurst, American critic, novelist, literary and social historian of the Midwest, professor of English at Miami University, ( died 1994 )

* November 12 – Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist and biographer ( b. 1810 )

* November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist ( d. 1990 )

* November 22 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist ( d. 1980 )

* November 10 – John P. Marquand, American novelist ( d. 1960 )

* November 6 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist ( d. 1942 )

* November 25 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist ( d. 1960 )

* November 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist ( d. 2007 )

* November 24 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish novelist and nationalist ( executed ) ( b. 1870 )

* November 22 – George Eliot, British novelist ( d. 1880 )

* November 29 – Amos Bronson Alcott, the father of the novelist Louisa May Alcott ( d. 1888 )

* November 11 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist ( d. 1907 )

* November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet ( d. 1573 )

André Malraux () DSO ( 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976 ) was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs.

Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd ( 8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983 ), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a British novelist.

Stephen Crane ( November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, ( born November 18, 1939 ) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.