The Communists, who won 57 of the 450 seats in parliament in the Dec. 2 election, filed the suit in the Supreme Court seeking to annul the vote.
'We have just filed the suit,' Vadim Solovyov, Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, told Reuters. 'We consider the elections were falsified.'
The Communist party says the vote was rigged by the authorities to hand victory to the United Russia party, which won 315 seats.
The suit says the Russian media gave skewed coverage of the election and says there were serious breaches of election law during the campaign and voting.
The Kremlin and Russian election officials denied there were significant violations.
Election observers from European democracy watchdogs the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the vote was not fair.
The Communists challenged the legality of previous elections held more than four years ago but their cases are still working their way through the court system.
(Reporting by Aydar Buribaev; Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Alison Williams)
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