1970 in the Soviet Union

none 1970 The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev Chubarov, Alexander 2003 Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and post-Soviet Eras Continuum International Publishing Group 978-0826413505 CITEREFChubarov2003 https://archive.org/details/russiasbitterpat0000chub 60 Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei KosyginThomas A. Baylis Governing by committee: collegial leadership in advanced societies State University of New York Press 1989 9780887069444 98 Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov Events May 24 – The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins.Королев Владимир Подземное неземное https://nplus1.ru/material/2016/08/06/Kola-Superdeep-Borehole 2021-08-08 nplus1.ru June 1 – The two-man spacecraft Soyuz 9 is launched.https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/displayTrajectory.action?id=1970-041A Trajectory: Soyuz 9 1970-041A NASA 14 May 2020 18 October 2020 June 15 – Operation Wedding: Fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane.Beckerman, Gal (2010). When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pages 194–195. October 6 – French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union. October 8 – Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Scammell Michael The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/opinion/solzhenitsyn-soviet-union-putin.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/opinion/solzhenitsyn-soviet-union-putin.html 2022-01-01 limited The New York Times 11 December 2018 October 15 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey. October 20 – The Zond 8 lunar probe is launched. November 9 – Luna 17 is launched. November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings."Report Prophet of Russ Doom Sentenced to 3 Years Labor", Chicago Tribune, November 13, 1970, p4 Births January 2 – Oksana Omelianchik, artistic gymnast January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator March 16 – Oleg Pavlov, writer (died 2018) June 11 – Dmitry Utkin, army officer (died 2023) July 3 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian racing cyclist July 13 – Igor Kirillov, army general and war criminal (died 2024) August 26 – Olimpiada Ivanova, race walkerhttps://worldathletics.org/athletes/-/14297957 Olimpiada Ivanova worldathletics.org Deaths January 10 — Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/11/archives/pavel-belyayev-astronaut-dead-russian-headed-flight-that-led-to.html Pavel Belyayev, Astronaut, Dead 1970-01-11 The New York Times 2019-01-15 en-US 0362-4331 January 31 — Mikhail Mil, helicopter manufacturer (b. 1909) March 31 — Semyon Timoshenko, 2nd People's Commissar for Defence (b. 1895) April 1 — Polina Zhemchuzhina, politician and wife of former foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov (b. 1897) April 17 — Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (b. 1877) June 11 — Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary, lawyer and politician (b. 1881)https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/12/archives/alexander-kerensky-dies-here-at-89-alexander-kerensky-who-led-first.html?mcubz=3 Alexander Kerensky Dies Here at 89 New York Times June 21 — Lev Kassil, writer (b. 1905) July 19 — Banat Batyrova, farmer (b. 1904)Батырова Банат Хайрулловна Bashkir Encyclopedia https://bashenc.online/ru/articles/83516/ 26 July 2026 Karimova I.G. 18 October 2019 ru Banat Khairullovna Batyrova August 22 — Vladimir Propp, folklorist and scholar (b. 1895) September 9 — Konon Molody, intelligence officer (b. 1922) November 17 — Nikolai Lunin, admiral in the Soviet Navy (b. 1907) November 19 Andrei Yeremenko, military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892) Maria Yudina, pianist (b. 1899) December 8 — Abram Alikhanov, experimental physicist (b. 1904) December 24 — Nikolai Shvernik, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (b. 1888) References See also 1970 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1971 1971 1971 Category:1970s in the Soviet Union Soviet Union Soviet Union Soviet Union