MOSCOW, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel on Friday said its board had recommended a nine-month dividend of 915.33 roubles ($9.87) per share and approved a stock split, a step that should boost market liquidity in its shares.

The world's largest palladium producer and a major producer of high-grade nickel, Nornickel this year failed to pay dividends on its 2022 results for the first time in 14 years, citing "negative geopolitics".

($1 = 92.7125 roubles) (Reporting by Anastasia Lyrchikova; writing by Alexander Marrow; editing by Jason Neely)