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1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92
1993 Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin 1993 Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies 1992 Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies 1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication 1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States 1991 Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union 1991 Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence 1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide 1991 Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union 1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad 1991 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union 1991 Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence, Warsaw Pact dissolves 1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty 1990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns 1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages 1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize 1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market 1990 Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties 1990 U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games 1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party 1990 Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of U.S.S.R. supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress 1989 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons 1989 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union 1989 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing 1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs 1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths 1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL 1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court 1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons 1988 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery) 1988 Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum 1988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN 1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel 1988 U.S. and Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya wed 1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits) 1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew 1988 U.S. - Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union 1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard 1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak 1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful) 1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles 1987 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit 1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1986 U.S. releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov 1986 New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet United Nations employee) of spying 1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (U.S. News World Report) 1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir 1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km 1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 1984 General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1984 Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet 1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe 1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats 1982 Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 77 1982 Mihail A Suslov, Soviet party ideologist, dies at 79 1980 Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet Prime Minister 1964 - 1980, suffers heart attack at 76 1980 Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness 1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die 1979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown 1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring 1979 Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space 1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched 1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years 1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan 1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit 1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki 1976 Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan 1976 President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe" 1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus 1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize 1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west 1973 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes 1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany 1971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars 1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars 1971 West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev 1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow 1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow 1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut 1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance 1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) 1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1970 Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon 1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union 1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched 1969 Alexander Mogilny, Khavarovsk, 1st soviet to defect to NHL, Sabres 1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space 1969 Jan Palach, protesting Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, self immolates at 20 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union 1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy 1968 Czechoslovakia and Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces 1968 Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion 1967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus 1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched 1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R. 1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon 1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus 1965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite 1964 Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev 1964 Otto V Kuusinen, President of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82 1963 Garry Kasparov, born in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure 1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon 1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons 1962 John F. Kennedy warns Russia U.S. will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba 1962 Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses 1962 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Supreme Soviet of U.S.S.R. 1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb 1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square 1961 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S. 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris 1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union 1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus 1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia 1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon 1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his U.S. visit 1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit 1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon 1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US 1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1958 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party 1957 U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched 1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika 1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) 1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced 1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270 1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister 1956 Hungary appeals for United Nations assistance against Soviet invasion 1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary 1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea 1955 Last Soviet forces leave Austria 1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities 1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania 1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra 1953 Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed 1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb 1953 Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73 1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down 1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8 1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade 1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister 1948 U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin 1948 U.S. denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin 1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade 1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel 1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist 1947 Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan 1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland 1946 Michail I Kalinin, President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60 1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 1945 Soviet army reach Rostock 1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River 1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin 1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1945 Warsaw freed by Soviet army 1945 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation) 1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army 1944 Soviet army invades Hungary 1944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II 1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia 1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia 1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania 1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp 1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek 1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland 1944 Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk 1944 Soviet forces conquer Wiborg 1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans 1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis 1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania 1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy 1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev 1943 Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk 1943 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr 1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny 1943 Soviet troops free Karkov 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod 1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London 1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad 1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines 1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union 1942 Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union 1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million 1941 Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union 1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union 1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation 1941 Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states 1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 1940 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union 1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union 1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania 1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania 1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956) 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland 1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union 1939 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-attack treaty 1939 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border 1939 Estonia accepts Soviet military bases 1939 Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided) 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union 1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark 1938 Anatoly Marchenko, Siberia, Soviet dissident 1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman 1936 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union 1936 French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime 1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union 1933 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m) 1933 Arif Melikov, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, name also Arif Malikov, Soviet composer, nationally acclaimed for composition Legend of Love whose ballet is among the finest works to emerge from the Soviet Union 1933 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") 1932 France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union 1932 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union 1932 William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan 1931 Mikhail Gorbachev, born in Privolnoye, U.S.S.R., Soviet Secretary General from 1985 - 1991 1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins 1928 Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of U.S.S.R., -91 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator 1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered 1925 Uzbekistan and Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics 1924 Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain 1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form 1923 Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov 1923 Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms 1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established 1922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR 1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.) 1922 German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized 1921 Soviet troops invade Georgia 1920 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 1919 Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Bela Kuns Soviet Republic 1919 Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated 1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army 1919 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown 1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech 1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms 1917 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent 1917 New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary) 1917 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military 1917 Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military 1917 Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet 1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) 1912 Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole 1908 Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author, 50th Anniv of Soviet Union 1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia 1905 Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM, 1980-85 1904 Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier, 1964-80 1899 Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin 1896 Dziga Vertiv, Denis A Kaufman, Russian director, Sjagai, Soviet! 1895 Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution 1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist, Mother, Deserter 1892 Edward H Carr, born in England, historian, History of Soviet Russia 1890 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, UN 1886 Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919 1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, President of 1st Soviet, |
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