1961 in the Soviet Union

none 1961 The following lists events that happened during 1961 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Nikita Khrushchev Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union - Leonid Brezhnev Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union - Nikita Khrushchev Births 30 March - Sergei Nozikov, former Russian professional footballer 1 June - Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary chief Deaths 15 July - Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)Joan Spetich Douglas E. Cameron Nina Karlovna Bari Grinstein Louise S. Campbell Paul J. Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook New York Greenwood Press 1987 978-0-3132-4849-8 6 4 October - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Soviet Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880) Events 1 September - first of the 1961 Soviet nuclear testsCentral Intelligence Agency National Intelligence Estimate 11-2A-62 http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000843187.pdf Soviet Atomic Energy Program 12 August 2014 16 May 1962 13 September - Exhibition of Leningrad artistsВыставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. 5 November - 1961 Elbarusovo school fire killed 110 students and teachers.March 28, 2018 Fifty-seven years ago, 106 children died in a fire at a village school. The Soviet public didn't know about it until the 1990s. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/03/28/fifty-years-ago-106-children-died-in-a-fire-at-a-village-school-the-soviet-public-didn-t-know-about-it-until-the-1990s 2019-06-12 meduza.io See also 1961 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1961 References 1961 1961 Category:1960s in the Soviet Union Category:Years in the Soviet Union Soviet Union Soviet Union Soviet Union