1950 in the Soviet Union
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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
- 5 January – 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster
February
- 14 February – The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.
March
- 12 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1950
April
- 2 April – Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.
June
- 28 June – 4 July – The Pavlovian session is held.
August
- 13 August – The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.
Births
- 12 May – Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Narcotics Control Service
- 11 August – Gennadiy Nikonov, weapons designer
- 1 September – Mikhail Fradkov, politician
- 11 December – Alexander Tatarsky, film director
Deaths
- 8 April – Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (born 1889)
- 1 October
- – Nikolai Voznesensky, Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1903)
- – Alexey Kuznetsov, Senior Secretary of Cadres of the CPSU (born 1905)
- – Mikhail Rodionov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (born 1907)
See also
References