This is a list of notable events from the year 1769 in Russia.

• Monarch – Catherine II^[a]

• Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russian forces take the Ottoman fortress of Chocim in Bukovina.

• Aleksey Arakcheyev, Russian general
• Ekaterina Feodorovna Baryatinskaya-Dolgorukova, Russian court official
• Yevgeni Ivanovich Markov, Russian infantry commander
• Georgiy Evseevich Eristov, Russian nobleman
• Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general
• Boris Vladimirovich Golitsyn, Russian aristocrat

• Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet
• Stepan Glotov, Russian navigator