— about 55 years ago
Date | Event |
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1918-01-14 |
Finland & USSR adopt New Style (Gregorian) calendar |
1918-02-05 |
Separation of church & state begins in USSR |
1918-02-14 |
USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1) |
1920-02-02 |
Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence |
1920-04-28 |
Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time) |
1920-05-07 |
USSR recognizes Georgia's independence |
1920-07-12 |
Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic |
1922-12-20 |
14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR) |
1922-12-30 |
Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre |
1923-03-21 |
US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition |
1923-05-31 |
China & USSR exchange diplomats |
1923-10-06 |
USSR adopts experimental calendar |
1923-11-06 |
USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks" |
1924-02-07 |
Benito Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR |
1924-03-17 |
Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition |
1924-03-17 |
Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats |
1924-03-27 |
Canada recognizes USSR |
1924-05-02 |
Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR |
1924-11-21 |
British premier Baldwin cancels Labour contract with USSR |
1925-01-20 |
USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR |
1925-06-16 |
The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established. |
1925-07-10 |
USSR's official news agency TASS forms |
1927-04-15 |
Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations |
1927-05-02 |
Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens |
1927-12-27 |
Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled |
1928-09-06 |
USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact |
1928-10-01 |
USSR launches its first 5-year plan |
1929-02-09 |
USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact |
1929-07-17 |
USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China |
1929-10-03 |
British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR |
1930-01-30 |
The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR. |
1930-06-16 |
Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. |
1931-03-11 |
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union. |
1931-06-15 |
Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty |
1931-06-24 |
USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty |
1931-08-24 |
France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty |
1932-01-21 |
USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty |
1932-06-29 |
USSR & China sign non-aggression treaty |
1932-10-10 |
Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest) |
1932-10-24 |
British government signs trade treaty with USSR |
1932-11-27 |
Poland & USSR sign non-aggression treaty |
1932-11-28 |
France & USSR sign not-aggression treaty |
1932-11-29 |
USSR & France sign no attack treaty |
1932-12-12 |
USSR & China resume diplomatic relations |
1933-02-06 |
-90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record) |
1933-05-06 |
Italy & USSR sign trade agreement |
1933-07-28 |
Spain recognizes the USSR |
1933-11-16 |
Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR |
1933-11-21 |
1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service |
1934-01-13 |
The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR. |
1934-06-10 |
USSR & Romania re-establish diplomatic relations |
1934-09-12 |
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR |
1934-09-17 |
USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz & Portugal vote no) |
1934-09-18 |
USSR admitted to League of Nations |
1935-07-24 |
The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR. |
1937-03-07 |
Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR |
1937-06-12 |
USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues |
1937-08-06 |
US & USSR sign trade treaty |
1939-08-23 |
USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact |
1939-08-24 |
Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact |
1939-09-28 |
Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender |
1939-10-30 |
USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews |
1939-11-29 |
USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland |
1939-11-30 |
USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki |
1940-06-17 |
USSR occupies Estonia |
1940-06-26 |
End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27 |
1940-06-27 |
USSR returns to Gregorian calendar |
1940-08-03 |
Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR |
1941-04-13 |
Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. |
1941-08-03 |
German troops conquer Roslavl USSR |
1941-10-06 |
German army occupies Briansk, USSR |
1941-10-07 |
German army occupies Viarma, USSR |
1941-11-27 |
USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germany to retreat |
1942-06-11 |
US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II |
1943-02-16 |
World War II: The USSR reconquers Kharkov. |
1943-07-05 |
Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks) |
1943-07-23 |
Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) |
1943-08-21 |
Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington |
1943-12-20 |
"Internationale" is no longer USSR National Anthem |
1944-03-13 |
USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government |
1945-01-20 |
The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany |
1945-02-13 |
USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die |
1945-03-12 |
USSR returns Transylvania to Romania |
1945-03-30 |
USSR invades Austria |
1945-06-05 |
USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany |
1945-08-08 |
US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials |
1945-08-08 |
USSR declares war against Japan in WW II |
1945-08-08 |
USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea |
1946-03-19 |
Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of USSR |
1946-10-28 |
German rocket engineers begin work in USSR |
1947-02-17 |
Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR |
1947-10-11 |
Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR |
1947-12-04 |
USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union |
1947-12-10 |
USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement |
1948-06-19 |
USSR blocks access road to West Berlin |
1949-07-14 |
USSR explodes its 1st atom bomb |
1949-08-29 |
USSR performs first nuclear test |
1949-09-23 |
US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation |
1949-10-02 |
USSR recognizes People's Republic of China |
1950-01-12 |
USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage |
1950-02-01 |
USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes |
1950-02-14 |
USSR & China sign peace treaty |
1950-03-01 |
USSR issues golden rubles |
1951-06-23 |
Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR |
1951-09-24 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1951-10-06 |
Stalin proclaims USSR has atom bomb |
1951-10-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1952-06-12 |
USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid |
1953-02-11 |
USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel |
1953-02-12 |
USSR breaks relations with Israel |
1953-03-06 |
Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR |
1953-07-20 |
USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations |
1953-08-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1953-08-29 |
USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb |
1954-01-30 |
Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR |
1954-03-31 |
USSR offers to join NATO |
1954-04-21 |
Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR |
1954-04-22 |
USSR joins UNESCO |
1954-04-24 |
Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations |
1954-09-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1954-10-23 |
Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany |
1955-01-15 |
USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic |
1955-02-08 |
Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him |
1955-03-25 |
E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR |
1955-05-07 |
USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain |
1955-05-15 |
Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restore Austria's independence |
1955-06-02 |
The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948. |
1955-06-07 |
India premier Nehru visit USSR |
1955-07-29 |
USSR performs nuclear Test |
1955-08-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1955-09-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1955-11-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1955-11-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1956-01-26 |
Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR |
1956-03-20 |
Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes |
1956-03-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1956-03-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1956-04-17 |
USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves |
1956-08-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) |
1956-11-08 |
UN demands USSR leave Hungary |
1956-11-17 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1956-11-26 |
USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks |
1957-01-19 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1957-01-25 |
FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR |
1957-03-08 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1957-04-03 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1957-04-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) |
1957-04-10 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1957-04-12 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1957-04-16 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1957-06-29 |
Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj & Sjepilov leave USSR communist party |
1957-07-26 |
USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile |
1957-08-08 |
USSR offers Syria economic/military aid |
1957-08-26 |
USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile |
1957-09-14 |
UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary |
1957-09-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1957-10-01 |
B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack |
1957-10-04 |
USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite |
1957-10-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1957-10-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1957-10-26 |
USSR fires defense minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov |
1957-11-03 |
USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit |
1957-12-28 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1958-01-07 |
USSR reduces army to 300,000 |
1958-02-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-02-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-03-14 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1958-03-15 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1958-03-21 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1958-03-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-03-31 |
USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same |
1958-05-15 |
USSR launches Sputnik III |
1958-08-27 |
USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard |
1958-09-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-09-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-10-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-10-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-10-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-10-12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-10-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1958-10-23 |
USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam |
1958-10-24 |
USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam |
1958-11-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1958-11-03 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1958-11-27 |
USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany |
1959-01-02 |
USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit |
1959-03-16 |
Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty |
1959-03-17 |
Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations |
1959-07-23 |
VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR |
1959-08-16 |
USSR introduces installment buying |
1959-08-17 |
USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor |
1959-09-12 |
Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon |
1959-09-13 |
USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body |
1959-10-04 |
USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side |
1959-10-07 |
Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3 |
1959-10-31 |
USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam |
1960-02-27 |
US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal |
1960-03-10 |
USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing |
1960-04-02 |
Cuba buys oil from USSR |
1960-05-07 |
Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR |
1960-05-07 |
USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy |
1960-05-08 |
USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations |
1960-05-09 |
US send U-2 over USSR |
1960-05-14 |
USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule |
1960-05-16 |
Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US |
1960-07-01 |
USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane |
1960-07-07 |
USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea |
1960-07-12 |
USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs |
1960-07-20 |
USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space |
1960-08-13 |
USSR withdraws advisors from China |
1960-08-19 |
Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident) |
1960-08-20 |
USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space |
1960-09-02 |
Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold |
1960-10-24 |
Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash |
1961-02-12 |
USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus |
1961-03-13 |
Landslide in USSR, kills 145 |
1961-08-07 |
Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US |
1961-08-30 |
USSR says it will resume nuclear testing |
1961-09-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1961-09-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1961-09-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR |
1961-09-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-09-12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-09-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1961-09-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-09-14 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of USSR |
1961-09-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-09-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-09-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1961-09-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-09-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-10-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-10-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-10-06 |
USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-10-08 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR |
1961-10-11 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1961-10-12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1961-10-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1961-10-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-10-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961-10-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR |
1961-11-11 |
Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitsj expelled from USSR's communist party |
1961-11-30 |
USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership |
1961-12-10 |
USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations |
1962-01-23 |
British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR |
1962-02-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962-02-10 |
USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel |
1962-03-18 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR |
1962-06-10 |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½" |
1962-07-12 |
1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR) |
1962-07-27 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-08-07 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962-08-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-08-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-08-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-08-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-08-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962-08-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-09-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-09-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-09-08 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-09-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-09-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-09-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-09-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-09-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-10-07 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-10-12 |
US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology |
1962-10-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962-10-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962-10-25 |
US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" |
1962-10-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962-11-01 |
USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars |
1962-11-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-11-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962-11-03 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-11-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962-11-20 |
USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade |
1962-12-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-12-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-12-24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962-12-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1963-02-19 |
USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba |
1963-04-02 |
USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km |
1963-06-16 |
Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 |
1963-06-20 |
US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line" |
1963-08-05 |
Britain, USA & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty |
1963-09-18 |
USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia |
1963-09-24 |
US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing |
1963-10-02 |
W German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to USSR |
1963-12-26 |
US furnishes cereal to USSR |
1964-03-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1964-04-02 |
USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned |
1964-05-16 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1964-07-19 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1964-08-18 |
USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites |
1964-09-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1964-10-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1964-11-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1964-11-30 |
USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned |
1965-01-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965-02-22 |
USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test) |
1965-03-03 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965-03-18 |
USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins) |
1965-05-01 |
USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon |
1965-05-09 |
Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails) |
1965-05-11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965-06-08 |
USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles |
1965-07-03 |
USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact |
1965-07-29 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965-09-21 |
O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250') |
1965-10-04 |
USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon |
1965-10-08 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965-11-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965-12-03 |
USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon |
1965-12-08 |
Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR |
1966-01-31 |
USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon |
1966-02-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1966-02-20 |
Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR |
1966-03-31 |
USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter |
1966-04-22 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1966-05-04 |
Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR |
1966-07-21 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1966-08-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1966-08-24 |
USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon |
1966-09-07 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1966-09-30 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1966-10-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1966-10-22 |
USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon |
1966-10-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1966-12-08 |
US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
1966-12-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1966-12-21 |
USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum |
1967-01-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1967-02-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-03-04 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR) |
1967-03-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-04-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-04-30 |
Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR) |
1967-05-19 |
USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space |
1967-05-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-06-10 |
USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel |
1967-06-12 |
USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus |
1967-06-14 |
USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit |
1967-07-15 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-08-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-09-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-09-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-09-30 |
USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking |
1967-10-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1967-10-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-10-19 |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" |
1967-10-30 |
USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch |
1967-11-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967-12-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1968-01-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968-01-31 |
Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR |
1968-03-02 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR) |
1968-03-02 |
USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit |
1968-04-24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968-05-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test (underground) |
1968-07-01 |
US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
1968-07-01 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1968-07-12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968-07-15 |
Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR |
1968-08-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1968-08-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968-09-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968-09-14 |
USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight |
1968-10-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1968-11-07 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1968-11-09 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968-12-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-01-05 |
USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) |
1969-01-10 |
USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus |
1969-03-07 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-05-16 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-07-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-07-22 |
USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite |
1969-07-23 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-09-11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-09-26 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1969-10-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-10-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1969-10-29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1969-11-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-12-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1969-12-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969-12-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970-01-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970-02-01 |
West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract |
1970-02-19 |
USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite |
1970-03-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970-03-30 |
USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship |
1970-05-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1970-05-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test (underground) |
1970-05-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970-05-29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1970-07-21 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970-07-24 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970-09-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970-09-12 |
USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility |
1970-10-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1970-10-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1970-10-28 |
US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts |
1970-12-12 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1970-12-16 |
1st successful landing on Venus (USSR) |
1970-12-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970-12-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1971-02-11 |
US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons |
1971-03-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971-03-23 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1971-04-19 |
USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit |
1971-04-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971-05-19 |
USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
1971-05-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971-05-28 |
USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars |
1971-07-02 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1971-09-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1971-10-04 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1971-10-09 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971-10-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971-10-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1971-11-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971-12-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971-12-22 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1971-12-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-01-06 |
Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR |
1972-02-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-03-04 |
Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty |
1972-03-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-03-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-04-09 |
USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty |
1972-04-10 |
US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons |
1972-04-11 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972-06-05 |
Yugoslav president Josip Tito visits USSR |
1972-06-29 |
USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km) |
1972-07-08 |
US sells grain to USSR for $750 million |
1972-07-09 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972-07-14 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1972-08-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-08-20 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972-08-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-08-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1972-08-31 |
Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics |
1972-09-01 |
Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title |
1972-09-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-09-04 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972-09-10 |
US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed) |
1972-09-21 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972-09-28 |
Canada defeats the USSR in the eigth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series. |
1972-10-03 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1972-11-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-11-24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972-12-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972-12-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1973-01-08 |
USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing |
1973-01-16 |
USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon |
1973-02-15 |
USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) |
1973-04-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1973-06-26 |
On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. |
1973-07-21 |
USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet |
1973-07-23 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1973-07-25 |
USSR launches Mars 5 |
1973-08-05 |
USSR launches Mars 6 |
1973-08-09 |
USSR launches Mars 7 |
1973-08-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1973-08-28 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1973-09-12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1973-09-19 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1973-09-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1973-09-30 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1973-10-01 |
USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens |
1973-10-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1973-12-21 |
Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict |
1974-01-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974-02-13 |
Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR |
1974-04-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974-04-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1974-05-16 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974-05-31 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974-06-27 |
US president Nixon visits USSR |
1974-07-08 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1974-07-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974-07-26 |
USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 |
1974-08-14 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1974-08-29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1974-09-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974-11-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1974-12-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974-12-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975-01-14 |
USSR breaks trade agreement with US |
1975-02-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975-03-11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975-04-19 |
India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR |
1975-04-25 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1975-04-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975-06-08 |
USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing |
1975-06-14 |
USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing |
1975-07-17 |
Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space |
1975-08-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1975-09-29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1975-10-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975-10-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1975-10-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1975-10-25 |
USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing |
1975-10-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975-12-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975-12-26 |
1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144) |
1976-01-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976-02-07 |
World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR) |
1976-04-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976-05-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976-05-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1976-07-13 |
Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct) |
1976-07-14 |
USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands |
1976-07-23 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976-07-29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1976-08-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976-08-09 |
USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth |
1976-08-18 |
USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon |
1976-08-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976-09-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1976-11-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1976-11-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976-12-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977-02-02 |
Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR) |
1977-02-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan |
1977-03-03 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR) |
1977-04-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977-05-24 |
USSR President Podgorny resigns |
1977-05-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977-06-16 |
Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR |
1977-07-26 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1977-08-10 |
USSR performs (underground) nuclear test |
1977-08-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977-08-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1977-09-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1977-09-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1977-10-07 |
USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. |
1977-10-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977-12-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-03-31 |
USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite |
1978-04-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-05-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-07-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-07-28 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-08-09 |
USSR performs (underground) nuclear test |
1978-08-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1978-08-24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1978-08-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-09-06 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1978-09-20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-09-24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1978-09-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1978-10-07 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1978-10-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-10-17 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1978-11-03 |
USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty |
1978-11-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-11-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-12-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978-12-18 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1979-01-17 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1979-02-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-02-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk |
1979-03-17 |
Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR |
1979-03-17 |
Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR) |
1979-05-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-05-20 |
1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John |
1979-05-24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-07-07 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-07-14 |
USSR performs nuclear Test |
1979-07-18 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-08-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-08-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-09-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-09-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-09-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1979-09-24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1979-09-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-10-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1979-10-07 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1979-10-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1979-10-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-10-25 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1979-10-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-11-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-12-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-12-21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-12-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979-12-25 |
USSR airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan |
1980-02-22 |
USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3, referred to as "Miracle on Ice". USA captain Mike Eruzione scores winning goal in 3rd period |
1980-03-14 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR) |
1980-04-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980-04-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980-07-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980-07-31 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980-08-03 |
22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR |
1980-08-13 |
Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR |
1980-09-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980-09-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980-10-08 |
USSR & Syria sign peace treaty |
1980-10-08 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1980-10-11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1980-11-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1980-12-10 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1980-12-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980-12-20 |
USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin |
1981-03-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981-04-01 |
Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR. |
1981-04-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981-04-24 |
US ends grain embargo against USSR |
1981-05-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981-07-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981-07-17 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981-09-02 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1981-09-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981-09-26 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1981-10-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1981-10-22 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1981-11-20 |
Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship |
1981-11-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981-12-24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981-12-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982-02-03 |
Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR |
1982-02-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982-04-19 |
USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit |
1982-04-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982-06-24 |
Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR) |
1982-07-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982-07-30 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1982-07-31 |
USSR performs nuclear Test |
1982-08-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982-08-28 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982-08-31 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982-09-04 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982-09-25 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982-10-01 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982-10-16 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982-10-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1982-11-12 |
USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader |
1982-11-29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982-11-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1982-12-05 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982-12-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983-02-01 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983-02-19 |
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record |
1983-02-22 |
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record |
1983-02-24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983-03-02 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983-03-08 |
House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR |
1983-03-08 |
President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" |
1983-03-30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983-04-12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983-04-25 |
Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR |
1983-05-29 |
Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m |
1983-06-16 |
USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president |
1983-07-07 |
11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR |
1983-07-28 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983-07-30 |
Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg |
1983-08-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1983-08-25 |
US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact |
1983-09-06 |
USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
1983-09-11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983-09-12 |
USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane |
1983-09-22 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983-09-24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983-09-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1983-10-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983-10-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983-11-23 |
USSR leave weapon disarmament talks |
1983-11-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983-12-26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-02-13 |
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader |
1984-02-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-03-01 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear & #5943 Lovi |
1984-03-29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-04-11 |
USSR party leader Chernenko elected president |
1984-04-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-04-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-05-08 |
USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics |
1984-06-01 |
Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg |
1984-06-29 |
USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI |
1984-07-04 |
Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m |
1984-07-13 |
Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m |
1984-07-14 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-07-21 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1984-08-11 |
USSR performs (underground) nuclear test |
1984-08-25 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1984-08-26 |
Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad |
1984-08-27 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1984-08-28 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1984-09-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-09-17 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1984-10-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-10-25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1984-10-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-11-23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-12-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984-12-15 |
USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet |
1984-12-21 |
USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come |
1984-12-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985-02-10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985-04-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985-05-20 |
FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR |
1985-05-22 |
US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR |
1985-06-09 |
USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus |
1985-06-15 |
En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus |
1985-07-02 |
Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR |
1985-07-11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985-07-18 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1985-07-25 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985-08-11 |
Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12) |
1985-09-04 |
Igor Paklin of USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12 |
1986-02-11 |
Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country |
1986-02-19 |
USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit |
1986-03-06 |
USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km |
1986-04-26 |
World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, contamination reach much of Western Europe |
1986-09-06 |
USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying |
1986-09-17 |
Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94) |
1986-09-29 |
USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges |
1986-10-19 |
USSR expels five US diplomats |
1986-12-19 |
USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile |
1987-02-26 |
USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-03-12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-04-03 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-04-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-04-19 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1987-04-20 |
US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes |
1987-05-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-05-15 |
1st Energiya Launch (USSR) |
1987-05-28 |
Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR |
1987-07-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1987-07-12 |
1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel |
1987-07-24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1987-07-25 |
USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite |
1987-08-02 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-08-07 |
Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea |
1987-09-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-09-18 |
US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles |
1987-09-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-10-03 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1987-10-16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-11-15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-12-10 |
"Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time |
1987-12-13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987-12-27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988-01-11 |
USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics |
1988-02-06 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988-04-03 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988-04-14 |
USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty |
1988-05-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988-05-07 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1988-05-15 |
USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan |
1988-06-11 |
Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8½") |
1988-06-25 |
Neth soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR) |
1988-07-12 |
USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit |
1988-08-29 |
USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir |
1988-09-06 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1988-09-14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988-10-07 |
Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR |
1988-10-18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988-11-12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988-12-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1988-12-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988-12-28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989-01-16 |
USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars |
1989-01-22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989-01-29 |
USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit |
1989-02-17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989-03-19 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR) |
1989-03-26 |
1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins |
1989-06-03 |
Leaking pipe in Asha, USSR, causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die |
1989-06-04 |
Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in USSR, kills 100s |
1989-07-08 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989-09-14 |
Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2 |
1989-10-04 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989-10-19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989-12-01 |
USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican |
1990-01-31 |
The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR. |
1990-02-07 |
USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties |
1990-02-26 |
USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991 |
1990-06-18 |
1st ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0 |
1990-07-25 |
Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) |
1990-07-29 |
28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1) |
1990-09-12 |
US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge |
1990-10-24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1991-01-01 |
5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR |
1991-01-03 |
Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years |
1991-01-14 |
Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR |
1991-02-10 |
Lithuania votes for independence from USSR |
1991-02-21 |
USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable |
1991-03-03 |
Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR |
1991-04-09 |
Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR |
1991-04-23 |
USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions |
1991-05-18 |
USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station |
1991-08-05 |
Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault world record (6.10m) in Malmö Sweden |
1991-08-20 |
Estonia formally declares its independence from the USSR |
1991-08-21 |
Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days |
1991-08-21 |
Latvia declares its independence from USSR |
1991-08-24 |
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party |
1991-08-24 |
Ukraine declares independence from USSR |
1991-08-25 |
Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic republics |
1991-08-27 |
Moldavia declares independence from USSR |
1991-08-29 |
USSR suspends Communist Party activities |
1991-09-06 |
USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania) |
1991-10-05 |
USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal |
1991-12-25 |
Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech |
1992-04-01 |
World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR |
1992-08-01 |
USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica |
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Date | Event |
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1845-05-15 |
Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908) |
1870-04-22 |
Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist and Premier of Russia |
1881-02-04 |
Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president USSR (1953-60) |
1888-04-26 |
Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR, astronomer |
1889-07-30 |
Vladimir K Zworykin, USSR, electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV |
1891-01-25 |
William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR |
1891-11-15 |
W Averell Harriman, US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46) |
1895-06-11 |
Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58) |
1895-10-04 |
Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II) |
1903-02-18 |
Nikolaj V Podgorny, pres USSR (1965-77) |
1905-05-24 |
Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965) |
1906-12-19 |
Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82) |
1907-09-26 |
Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for USSR |
1909-05-14 |
Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950) |
1909-07-05 |
Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/18 NS] |
1909-07-18 |
Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS] |
1911-04-17 |
Mikhail Botvinnik, of USSR, world chess champion (1948-63) |
1911-09-24 |
Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader |
1916-01-07 |
Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950) |
1917-09-30 |
Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, USSR, director (Taganka) |
1919-01-23 |
Nina Dumbadze, USSR, Discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952) |
1920-07-20 |
Lev Aronin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1950) |
1921-04-15 |
Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3) |
1921-10-17 |
Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952) |
1921-11-09 |
Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56) |
1923-11-06 |
Aleksandra Chudina, USSR, track jumper (Olympic-2 silver-1952) |
1925-06-26 |
Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II) |
1925-08-28 |
Arkadi N Strugazki, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika) |
1925-10-25 |
Yakov Rylskly, USSR, sabre team (Olympic-bronze-1956) |
1926-02-07 |
Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I) |
1926-09-25 |
Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1926-10-25 |
Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, USSR, soprano opera singer, (d. 2012) |
1927-01-14 |
Ivan Kalita, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1968) |
1927-03-27 |
Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor |
1927-12-08 |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10) |
1928-01-25 |
Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR (-91) |
1928-02-14 |
Sergei Kapitza, Antenna in the USSR |
1928-02-23 |
Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A) |
1928-05-23 |
Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records) |
1928-09-06 |
Rudolph Plukfelder, USSR, light heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1929-04-27 |
Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, USSR, discus thrower (Oly-gold-1952, 60) |
1929-05-14 |
Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964) |
1929-06-17 |
Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69) |
1929-07-19 |
Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006) |
1929-08-17 |
Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident) |
1929-08-27 |
Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952) |
1929-09-05 |
Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok III, Soyuz 9) |
1929-09-28 |
Nikolay Ryzhkov, Premier of USSR (1985-1991) |
1930-02-11 |
Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960) |
1930-07-20 |
Yuri Petrovich Artyukin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 14) |
1931-01-22 |
Galina Zybina, USSR, discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58) |
1931-02-01 |
Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR |
1931-03-02 |
Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91) |
1931-04-29 |
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28) |
1931-05-04 |
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio) |
1931-11-23 |
Yevgeni Grischin, USSR, 500m/1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956, 60) |
1932-02-03 |
Maria Itkina, USSR, sprinter (9 world records) |
1932-03-10 |
Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1932-05-17 |
Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to USSR |
1932-05-25 |
Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14) |
1932-09-18 |
Valery Viktorovich Ryumin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32/34, 35/37) |
1932-10-23 |
Vasily Belov, Northern Krai, USSR, author (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), (d. 2012) |
1933-01-16 |
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A, 27, T-3) |
1933-04-15 |
Boris Strugatski, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika) |
1933-06-19 |
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11) |
1933-09-10 |
Yevgeny Vassilyevich Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5) |
1934-02-08 |
Galina Bystrova, USSR, pentathelete (1957, 58) |
1934-05-30 |
Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19) |
1934-07-13 |
Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10) |
1934-08-25 |
Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39) |
1934-11-26 |
Ludmila Shevtsova, USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1934-12-03 |
Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 24, 37/36) |
1934-12-18 |
Boris Valentinovich Volynov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21) |
1935-02-01 |
Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2) |
1935-07-08 |
Vitali Ivanovich Sevastiyanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 9, 18B) |
1935-08-03 |
Georgi Stepanovich Shonin, Odessa USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6) |
1935-09-11 |
Gherman Stepanovich Titov, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok II) |
1935-11-22 |
Ludmila Belousova Protopopov, USSR, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68) |
1936-01-14 |
Ludmila Pinayeva, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1964, 1968, 1972) |
1936-06-02 |
Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR, 20K walker (Olympic-gold-1960, 68) |
1937-01-30 |
Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess champion (1969-72) |
1937-02-10 |
Yuriy Poyarkov, USSR, volleyball player (Oly-2 gold/1 silver-1964-72) |
1937-04-18 |
Tatyana Shchelkanova, USSR, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1964) |
1937-05-10 |
Tamara Press, USSR, shot putter/discus thrower (Oly-gold-60) |
1937-06-18 |
Vitaly Mikhailovich Zholobov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21) |
1937-09-16 |
Aleksandr Medved, USSR, super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964 68, 72) |
1937-11-26 |
Boris Borisovich Yegorov, USSR, doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I) |
1938-02-11 |
Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1938-02-11 |
Yevgeniy Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1938-04-19 |
Rose-Marie Precht, Back to the USSR - takaisin Ryssiin |
1938-05-25 |
Ludmil Buldakova, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1938-06-24 |
Boris Lagutin, USSR, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68) |
1938-07-30 |
Vayachselav Ivanenko, USSR, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1988) |
1938-08-19 |
Valentin Mankin, USSR, finn class yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1939-02-13 |
Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23) |
1939-03-08 |
Lydia Skoblikova, USSR, speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64) |
1939-03-10 |
Irina Press, USSR, 80m hurdles/Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1960, 64) |
1939-04-03 |
Vitaliy Davidov, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72) |
1939-10-02 |
Yuri Nikolayevich Glazkov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 24) |
1939-10-08 |
Elvira Ozolina, USSR, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1939-11-11 |
Claudia Boyarskikh, USSR, 5K/10K cross country (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1939-11-29 |
Gennadiy Volnov, USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1940-03-07 |
Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5) |
1940-05-24 |
Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987) |
1940-07-06 |
Viktor Kuzkin, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72) |
1940-07-22 |
Yuriy Klimov, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1940-09-28 |
Alekander Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 29/31, T-6) |
1941-02-01 |
Anatoliy Firssov, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72) |
1941-02-16 |
Vitali Kuznetsov, USSR, judo (Olympic-silver-1972) |
1941-05-03 |
Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78) |
1941-05-05 |
Aleksandr Ragulin, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72) |
1941-05-21 |
Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4) |
1941-08-05 |
Leonid Denissovich Kizim, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15) |
1941-08-27 |
Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11) |
1942-01-01 |
Gennadi Vassilyevich Sarafanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15) |
1942-01-07 |
Vasiliy Ivanovich Alekseyev, USSR, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-72, 76) |
1942-01-08 |
Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23) |
1942-04-11 |
Anatoly Nikolayevich Berezovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5) |
1942-04-29 |
Galina A Kulakova, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1972) |
1942-05-13 |
Vladimir A Dzhanibekov, USSR, cosmo (Soyuz 27, 39, T-6, T-12, T-13) |
1943-03-25 |
Pavel Lednev, USSR, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1943-07-24 |
Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1944-01-23 |
Sergey Belov, USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1944-02-15 |
Aleksandr A Serebrov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17) |
1944-06-15 |
Inna Ryskai, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-2 gold/2 silver-1964-76) |
1944-08-01 |
Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, 38, TM-2) |
1945-03-18 |
Aleksey Vakhonin, USSR, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1945-03-26 |
Mikhail Voronin, USSR, horse vault gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1945-04-10 |
Vera Misevich, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1945-06-09 |
Faina Myelink, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1945-08-31 |
Leonid Ivanovich Popov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 35/37, 40, T-7) |
1945-09-29 |
Nadezhda Chizova, USSR, shot putter (Oly-gold/silv/bronze-68/72/76) |
1945-10-03 |
Viktor Saneyev, USSR, triple jumper (Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80) |
1945-11-26 |
Mikhail Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968) |
1946-01-11 |
Ludmila Poradnik, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1946-02-16 |
Aleksandr Shaparenko, USSR, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1946-05-01 |
Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956) |
1946-05-17 |
Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1946-08-21 |
Lev Alburt, USSR, International Chess Master (1976) |
1947-01-02 |
Aleksandr Tikhonova, USSR, biathalon relay (Oly-gold-1968, 72, 76, 80) |
1947-02-02 |
Aleksandr Medved, USSR, wrestler (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72) |
1947-07-28 |
Elena Novikova-Belova, USSR, foils (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1947-08-11 |
Sergey Kovalneko, USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1968) |
1947-09-16 |
Aleksandr V Rutskoi, Ukrainian Hero of USSR/VP (1991- ) |
1947-11-04 |
Aleksandr Tkachev, USSR, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1947-11-04 |
Alexei Ulanov, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76) |
1947-11-05 |
Oleg Antropov, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1947-12-10 |
Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968) |
1948-02-29 |
Nikolai Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976) |
1948-02-29 |
Yuri Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976) |
1948-09-19 |
Nadezhda Tkachenko, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1948-09-29 |
Viktor Krovopouskov, USSR, sabres/fencer (Olympic gold, individual and team, 1976, 1980) |
1948-10-20 |
Andrei Suraikin, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972) |
1948-11-26 |
Galina Prozumenschikova, USSR, 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1949-07-21 |
Ludmila Smirnova, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972) |
1949-09-12 |
Irina Rodnina, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80) |
1949-10-20 |
Valery Borzov, USSR, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1949-11-03 |
Roswitha Krause, USSR, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1968) |
1949-11-25 |
[Boris] Alexander Godunov, Sakhalin USSR, dancer/actor (Die Hard) |
1949-12-13 |
Nana Alexandria, USSR, International Woman's Chess Grandmaster (1976) |
1950-06-25 |
Tatyana Averina, USSR, speed skater 1K, 3K (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1951-03-22 |
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11) |
1951-05-23 |
Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85) |
1951-12-17 |
Tatyana Kazankina, USSR, middle distance runner (Olympics-gold-1976) |
1952-02-29 |
Raisa Smetanina, USSR, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976, 80, 92) |
1952-03-08 |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14) |
1952-03-09 |
Iuliana Semenova, USSR, basketball (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1952-04-25 |
Vladislav Tretiak, USSR hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972, 76) |
1952-06-16 |
Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1952-07-26 |
Ludmila Maslakova, USSR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1980) |
1952-10-07 |
Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1952-10-14 |
Nikolai Adrianov, USSR, gymnast (Olympic-4 gold/2 silver/bronze-1976) |
1952-12-29 |
Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80) |
1953-02-04 |
Svetlana Ulmasova, USSR, 3K (world title 1978) |
1953-11-28 |
Nadezhda Olizarenko, USSR, 800m/1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1954-01-02 |
Ludmila Borozna, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1955-03-13 |
Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980) |
1955-06-28 |
Nikolai Simyatov, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1976) |
1955-07-11 |
Sergey Babinov, USSR, ice hockey star (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1955-07-24 |
Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1956-01-15 |
Vera Sosulya, USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1956-03-26 |
Tatyana Kochergina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1956-06-03 |
Suren Nalbandyan, USSR, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1956-06-21 |
Mikhail Burtsev, USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1956-09-16 |
Anatoly Beloglazov, USSR, 52 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1956-09-16 |
Sergei Beloglazov, USSR, 57 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1957-07-31 |
Irina Nazariva, USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1957-09-20 |
Vladmir Tkachenko, USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1980) |
1958-06-28 |
Sergei Shakrai, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980) |
1958-08-07 |
Larisa Karlova, USSR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1958-12-02 |
Vladimir Parfenovich, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1959-02-08 |
Irina Kalinina, USSR, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1959-03-19 |
Ulla Koivuranta, Back to the USSR - takaisin Ryssiin |
1960-06-29 |
Sergey Kopylov, USSR, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1961-01-17 |
Maia Chiburdanidze, Kutaisi USSR, women's world chess champ |
1961-05-30 |
Ella Arolovich, Leningrad USSR, model |
1961-06-24 |
Natalya Shaposhnikova, USSR, sidehorse vaulter (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1961-08-07 |
Yelena Davydova, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1963-04-13 |
Gary Kimovich Kasparov, USSR, world chess champion (1985- ) |
1963-05-21 |
Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976) |
1970-07-04 |
Andrei Cherkasov, USSR, tennis star |
1970-11-01 |
Alla Korot, Odessa USSR, actress (Jenna Norris-Another World) |
1971-06-30 |
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 38 |
1983-05-05 |
Rowland Kimber, Karosta: Life After the USSR |
2184-03-25 |
Pavel Andreivich Chekov, Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character) |
Date | Event |
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1961-04-30 |
Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR |
Date | Event |
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1449-10-27 |
Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56 |
1963-09-01 |
Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR |
1967-02-15 |
William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76 |
1968-03-07 |
Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 |
1969-12-02 |
Kliment J Voroshilov, president USSR (1953-60), dies |
1970-01-10 |
Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 |
1975-02-24 |
Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79 |
1983-01-11 |
Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79 |
1983-03-26 |
Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75 |
1985-03-10 |
Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 73 |
1988-01-14 |
Georgy M Malenkov, PM of USSR (1953-55), dies at 86 |
1990-06-05 |
Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies |
1991-08-22 |
Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide |
1995-06-30 |
Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74 |
2000-09-26 |
Rose-Marie Precht, Back to the USSR - takaisin Ryssiin |
2012-08-14 |
Sergei Kapitza, Antenna in the USSR |