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1965The following lists events that happened during 1965 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:
Leonid Brezhnev
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union:
Anastas Mikoyan (Until 9 December 1965)
Nikolai Podgorny (Starting 9 December 1965)
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union:
Alexei Kosygin
Events
February
February 4 — Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience.
February 6 — Premier Alexei Kosygin visits Hanoi as a member of a diplomatic mission to announce further military aid for North Vietnam.
March
March 18 — Alexei Leonov aboard the Voskhod 2 becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk, lasting 12 minutes.Burgess Colin Hall Rex The first Soviet cosmonaut team their lives, legacy, and historical impact 2009 Springer Berlin 978-0387848242 252 Online-Ausg. https://books.google.com/books?id=rrdVPtCNL9AC&pg=PA252 16 August 2019 18 March 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230318184627/https://books.google.com/books?id=rrdVPtCNL9AC&pg=PA252 liveGrayzeck Dr. Edwin J. Voskhod 2 https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1965-022A nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov National Space Science Data Center 20 July 2014 14 May 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210514152511/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1965-022A live
March 24 — Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev accuses the United States of 'pirate raids' against North Vietnam.Zorza Victor 2016-03-24 Soviet volunteers may go to Vietnam - archive https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/24/vietnam-war-russia-troops-1965-archive 2025-07-18 The Guardian en-GB 0261-3077
April
April 24 — The 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations took in honor 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, seeking further recognition.Lindy Jacob D. Beyond invisible walls: the psychological legacy of Soviet trauma, East European therapists and their patients 2001 Brunner-Routledge New York 9781583913185 192
May
May 9 — The 1965 Moscow Victory Day Parade is held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2.
September
September 18 — Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.Tribune International Herald 2015-09-18 1965: Kosygin Offers To Mediate https://archive.nytimes.com/iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/1965-kosygin-offers-to-mediate/ 2025-07-18 IHT Retrospective Blog en
The Central Committee ratifies the 1965 Soviet Economic Reform (sometimes called the Kosygin Reform).Bland W. B. https://www.redstarpublishers.org/BlandRestoration.pdf The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union Selecteditions 1980 1st Wembley en
Births
January 12 — Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
January 14 — Shamil Basayev, Chechen guerrilla leader (d. 2006)
January 23 — Armen Darbinyan, 7th Prime Minister of Armenia
January 26 — Natalia Yurchenko, artistic gymnast
May 15 — Gulshara Abdykhalikova, 11th State Secretary of Kazakhstan
June 1 — Larisa Lazutina, cross-country skier
June 15 — Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
September 14 — Dmitry Medvedev, 3rd President of Russia
September 26
Alexei Mordashov, Russian billionaire businessman
Petro Poroshenko, 5th President of Ukraine
October 14 — Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
October 23 — Asqar Mamin, 10th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
October 30 — Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
November 30 — Radion Gataullin, pole vaulter
December 30 — Valentina Legkostupova, pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020)
Deaths
January 3 — Alexander Poskrebyshev, former Head of the Special Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1891)
January 17 — Alexander Sirotkin, lieutenant general and division commander (b. 1890)
January 30 — Frol Kozlov, member of the 20th–21st and 22nd Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1908)
February 2 — Alexander Akimov, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
February 18 — Yevgeny Charushin, illustrator and author (b. 1901)
March 3 — Vincas Vitkauskas, general (b. 1890)
March 20 — Ivan Boldin, senior Red Army general (b. 1892)
April 9 — Anton Lopatin, lieutenant general (b. 1897)
May 1 — Stepan Povetkin, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
May 27 — Yevgeny Pavlovsky, zoologist and entomologist (b. 1884)
May 28 — Vladimir Gardin, film director and actor (b. 1877)
June 21 — Piotr Buchkin, painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher (b. 1886)
July 16 — Nikoloz Berdzenishvili, historian (b. 1895)
August 27
Sergei Kurashov, 9th Minister of Health of the Soviet Union (b. 1910)
Alexander Todorsky, general and komkor (b. 1894)
September 22 — Grigory Nikulin, Bolshevik revolutionary (b. 1895)
October 14 — Saja Batyrow, 9th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (b. 1908)
November 1 — Seyid Shushinski, khananda folk singer (b. 1889)
November 18 — Teymur Guliyev, 1st & 3rd Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1888)
November 23 — Oskar Sepre, Estonian communist politician (b. 1900)
See also
1965 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
List of Soviet films of 1965
References
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