1970 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev[1]
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin[2]
- Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov
Events
- May 24 – The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins.[3]
- June 1 – The two-man spacecraft Soyuz 9 is launched.[4]
- June 15 – Operation Wedding: Fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane.[5]
- October 6 – French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
- October 8 – Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.[6]
- October 15 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
- October 20 – The Zond 8 lunar probe is launched.
- November 9 – Luna 17 is launched.
- November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings.[7]
Births
- January 2 – Oksana Omelianchik, artistic gymnast
- January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator
- March 16 – Oleg Pavlov, writer (died 2018)
- June 11 – Dmitry Utkin, army officer (died 2023)
- July 3 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian racing cyclist
- July 13 – Igor Kirillov, army general and war criminal (died 2024)
- August 26 – Olimpiada Ivanova, race walker[8]
Deaths
- January 10 — Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)[9]
- March 31 — Semyon Timoshenko, 2nd People's Commissar for Defence (b. 1895)
- April 1 — Polina Zhemchuzhina, politician and wife of former foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov (b. 1897)
- April 17 — Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (b. 1877)
- June 11 — Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary, lawyer and politician (b. 1881)[10]
- June 21 — Lev Kassil, writer (b. 1905)
- August 22 — Vladimir Propp, folklorist and scholar (b. 1895)
- September 9 — Konon Molody, intelligence officer (b. 1922)
- November 17 — Nikolai Lunin, admiral in the Soviet Navy (b. 1907)
- November 19
- Andrei Yeremenko, military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
- Maria Yudina, pianist (b. 1899)
- December 8 — Abram Alikhanov, experimental physicist (b. 1904)
- December 24 — Nikolai Shvernik, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (b. 1888)
References
- ^ Chubarov, Alexander (2003). Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and post-Soviet Eras. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 60. ISBN 978-0826413505.
- ^ Thomas A. Baylis (1989). Governing by committee: collegial leadership in advanced societies. State University of New York Press. p. 98. ISBN 9780887069444.
- ^ Королев, Владимир. "Подземное неземное". nplus1.ru. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
- ^ "Trajectory: Soyuz 9 1970-041A". NASA. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Beckerman, Gal (2010). When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pages 194–195.
- ^ Scammell, Michael (11 December 2018). "The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-01-01.
- ^ "Report Prophet of Russ Doom Sentenced to 3 Years Labor", Chicago Tribune, November 13, 1970, p4
- ^ "Olimpiada Ivanova". worldathletics.org.
- ^ "Pavel Belyayev, Astronaut, Dead". The New York Times. 1970-01-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ "Alexander Kerensky Dies Here at 89". New York Times.