1950 in the Soviet Union

none June 2025 1950 The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Nikolay Shvernik Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin Events January January 5 — 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster February February 14 — The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded. March March 12 — Soviet Union legislative election, 1950 April April 2 — Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established. June June 28 – July 4 — The Pavlovian session is held. August August 13 — The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster. Births January 3 — Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins (d. 2003) January 17 — Viktor Kosykh, Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor (d. 2011) January 21 — Leonid Kosakivsky, First elected mayor of Kyiv February 17 — Albertas Simenas, 2nd Prime Minister of Lithuania March 21 — Sergey Lavrov, 4th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation April 8 — Yevgeny Savchenko, 2nd Governor of Belgorod Oblast April 12 — Pavel Ipatov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast April 16 — Igor Farkhutdinov, 3rd Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (d. 2003) April 20 — Alexander Lebed, 3rd Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (d. 2002) April 25 — Boris Ebzeyev, 3rd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia May 6 — Mikhail Myasnikovich, 7th Prime Minister of Belarus May 12 — Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia May 17 — Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Soviet and Russian dissident, writer and liberal politician (d. 2014) May 31 Edgar Savisaar, 1st Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Estonia (d. 2022) Alexander Filipenko, 1st Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug June 18 — Alexander Solovyov, 2nd Head of the Udmurt Republic (d. 2023) June 22 — Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and diplomat (d. 2009) June 26 — Jaak Joala, Estonian singer (d. 2010) July 9 — Viktor Yanukovych, 4th President of Ukraine August 11 — Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapons designer (d. 2003) August 23 — Roza Otunbayeva, 3rd President of Kyrgyzstan August 25 — Oleg Betin, 2nd Governor of Tambov Oblast (d. 2023) September 1 — Mikhail Fradkov, 8th Prime Minister of Russia October 1 — Boris Morukov, Russian physicist and astronaut (d. 2015) October 4 — Oleg Bogomolov, 3rd Governor of Kurgan Oblast November 9 — Dmitry Ayatskov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast November 16 — Viktor Shershunov, 2nd Governor of Kostroma Oblast (d. 2007) December 7 — Hasanaga Sadigov, Azerbaijani ashik singer (d. 2018) December 9 — Vladimir Pekhtin, Russian politician December 11 — Alexander Tatarsky, Russian film director (d. 2007) December 15 — Boris Gryzlov, 3rd Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation December 21 — Nikolay Kiselyov, 3rd Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast December 24 — Mustafa Batdyyev, 2nd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia Deaths March 15 — Alexander Kobiskoy, WWII air force flying ace (b. 1920) April 8 — Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1889) May 20 — Peter Petrovich Troyanskii, educator and scholar (b. 1894) June 26 — Antonina Nezhdanova, soprano (b. 1873) July 12 — Lev Galler, admiral (b. 1883) August 8 — Nikolai Myaskovsky, composer (b. 1881)Jaffé Daniel Historical Dictionary of Russian Music 8 March 2012 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 978-0-8108-7980-5 226-227 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Historical_Dictionary_of_Russian_Music/65ZrAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA227&printsec=frontcover en August 24 Grigory Kulik, military officer (b. 1890) Vasily Gordov, general (b. 1896) October 1 Nikolai Voznesensky, politician and economic planner (b. 1903) Alexey Kuznetsov, statesman and functionary (b. 1905) Mikhail Rodionov, 9th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1907) October 19 — Viktor Strazhev, bibliographer, translator, poet and literary critic (b. 1879) November 12 — Hryhoriy Lakota, Eastern Catholic bishop (b. 1883) November 13 — Antonina Zubkova, WWII bomber pilot (b. 1920) See also 1950 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1950 References 1950 1950 Category:1950s in the Soviet Union Category:Years in the Soviet Union Soviet Union Soviet Union Soviet Union