1966 in the Soviet Union

none February 2022 1966 The following lists events that happened during 1966 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: Nikolai Podgorny Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin Events February February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/beyond-earth-tagged.pdf Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 1–2 Siddiqi Asif A. 2017059404 9781626830424 NASA History Program Office second 2018 SP2018-4041 The NASA history series Washington, D.C. February 10 – Soviet fiction writers Yuli DanielSoviet dissident Yuli Daniel; imprisoned for publishing abroad https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-01-mn-324-story.html The Los Angeles Times 1 January 1989 and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings. February 20 – While Soviet author and translator Valery Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship.Voren, Robert van Cold War in psychiatry: human factors, secret actors 2010 Rodopi Amsterdam—New York 978-90-420-3046-6 140 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ru3-kQAACAAJ140 March March 1 - Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.Harvey Brian 2007 Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects Springer-Praxis 94–97 9780387463438 March 29 – The 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held: Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.Christian F. Ostermann Inside China's Cold War https://books.google.com/books?id=5IjzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA370 2008 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 370 March 31 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/beyond-earth-tagged.pdf Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 1 Siddiqi Asif A. 2017059404 9781626830424 NASA History Program Office second 2018 SP2018-4041 The NASA history series Washington, D.C. April April 8 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union, as well as Leader of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union). O'Sullivan, John The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World Regnery Publishing 2009 94–5 https://books.google.com/books?id=EnMVq0jcIUEC 978-1-59698-016-7 May May 4 - Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union. July July 16 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about the Vietnam War (the Soviet government rejects his ideas). October October 7 – The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.Search IHT Retrospective SEARCH IN OUR PAGES 1966: Russia Expels Chinese https://iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/1966-russia-expels-chinese/ 23 March 2022 International Herald Tribune The New York Times October 7, 1966 October 11 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research. Births 3 March – Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of Russia 15 August – Marat Minibayev, former Russian professional footballer 17 July - Taras Nahorniak, Ukrainian geographer Deaths January 14 – Sergei Korolev, rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (b. 1907) March 5 – Anna Akhmatova, poet (b. 1889) May 7 – Usman Yusupov, 7th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan (b. 1901) September 14 – Nikolay Cherkasov, actor (b. 1903) September 19 – Vladimir Fyodorov, scientist and general (b. 1874) October 17 – Zhumabay Shayakhmetov, 4th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (b. 1902) October 28 – Nikolai Belyaev, 8th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (b. 1903) November 14 – Nikolai Ignatov, 6th & 8th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (b. 1901) December 19 – Betty Kuuskemaa, Estonian stage and film actress (b. 1879) December 31 – Elena Stasova, Russian Soviet Revolutionary and Old Bolshevik (b. 1873) See also 1966 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1966 References 1966 1966 1966 in the Soviet Union Category:1960s in the Soviet Union Category:Years in the Soviet Union Soviet Union Soviet Union Soviet Union