1955 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1955 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Georgy Malenkov (until 8 February), Nikolai Bulganin (starting 8 February)
Events
February
May
- 14 May – Warsaw Pact
June
- 2 June – Belgrade declaration
November
- 15 November – Władysław Gomułka initiates talks about the Repatriation of Poles (1955–59).
- 22 November – The first Soviet hydrogen bomb, RDS-37, is tested.
- 30 November – The 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition begins.
December
- 31 December – The Pospelov Commission is set up.
Births
- 1 January – Gennady Lyachin, Russian submarine captain (d. 2000)
- 29 January – Zebiniso Rustamova, archer
- 10 February – Oksana Shvets, Ukrainian actress (d. 2022)
- 22 March – Valdis Zatlers, President of Latvia
- 16 May – Olga Korbut, Belorussian Olympic gymnast
- 11 June – Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower (d. 2021)
- 1 July – Nikolai Demidenko, pianist
- 7 August – Vladimir Sorokin, writer
- 7 September – Efim Zelmanov, mathematician
- 13 October – Sergei Shepelev, ice hockey player
Deaths
- 6 January – Yevgeny Tarle, historian (born 1874)
- 19 March – Leonid Govorov, military commander (born 1897)
- 30 September – Michael Chekhov, actor (born 1891)
- 25 Aplil-Marina Cvetaeva,writer
See also
References
- ^ "Zebiniso RUSTAMOVA - Olympic Archery | USSR". International Olympic Committee. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ^ Oksana Shvets, famed Ukrainian actress, killed in Russian missile strike
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