1971 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1971 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
Events
January
- January 1 — Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna, a comic variety duet of actors, appear in the telecast 'Terem-Teremok'.[2]
April
Births
- January 31 —Andriy Parubiy, Ukrainian politician (d. 2025)
- February 8 — Dmitry Nelyubin, track cyclist (d. 2005)
- February 27 — Zaal Udumashvili, Georgian politician
- March 31 — Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
- April 3 — Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Russian actress and television presenter (d. 2024)
- April 21 — Valentin Morkov, Russian professional football coach and a former player
- July 22 — Mikheil Kavelashvili, 6th President of Georgia
- August 5 — Valdis Dombrovskis, 20th Prime Minister of Latvia
- September 1 — Gennady Bachinsky, Russian TV and radio host (d. 2008)
- December 15 — Vasily Aleksanyan, Russian lawyer and a former Executive Vice President of Yukos oil company (d. 2011)
- December 25 — Vladislav Galkin, Russian actor (d. 2010)
Deaths
- January 10 — Nadezhda Peshkova, artist (b. 1901)
- January 31 — Viktor Zhirmunsky, literary historian and linguist (b. 1891)
- April 2 — Vladimir Krinsky, artist and architect (b. 1890)
- April 12 — Igor Tamm, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- April 29 — Nikolai Barabashov, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1894)
- June 18 — Vladimir Biryukov, lexicographer (b. 1888)
- June 29 — Crew of Soyuz 11
- Georgy Dobrovolsky (b. 1928)
- Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
- Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
- July 22 — Roman Mashkov, military intelligence officer (b. 1922)[4]
- September 11 — Nikita Khrushchev, 3rd Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1894)
- September 18 — Aleksandr Prokofiev, poet (b. 1900)
- September 28 — Vasily Butusov, footballer (b. 1892)
- October 17 — Sergey Kavtaradze, politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
- October 20 — Nikolai Basistiy, Soviet Navy officer (b. 1898)
- November 1 — Mikhail Romm, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue (b. 1901)
- November 15 — Rudolf Abel, intelligence officer (b. 1903)
- November 29 — Ivan Samylovsly, diplomat, politician and journalist (b. 1905)
- December 5 — Andrey Andreyev, former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
- December 8 — Ernst Krenkel, Arctic explorer and radio operator (b. 1903)
- December 18 — Aleksandr Tvardovsky, poet and writer (b. 1910)
References
- ↑ Chubarov, Alexander (2003). Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and post-Soviet Eras. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 60. ISBN 978-0826413505.
- ↑ «Звёзды эфира». Вероника Маврикиевна и Авдотья Никитична[link removed]
- ↑ "Soviet Sends Another Space Vehicle Into Orbit", The New York Times, April 19, 1971, p4
- ↑ "1971 in the Soviet Union". warheroes.ru (in Russian).