• Source: 1949 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1949 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

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January 25 — The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON) is established by the Soviet Union and other communist nations.
c. January 29 — Stalin and antisemitism: The Soviet media resume a savage propaganda campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans", a euphemism for Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist




= March

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March 25–28 — Operation Priboi




= May

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May 12 — Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade




= July

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July 10 — 1949 Khait earthquake




= August

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August 29 — The atomic bomb RDS-1 is exploded in the first Soviet nuclear test




= September

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September 13 — The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal




= October

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October 2 — The Soviet Union recognizes the People's Republic of China, proclaimed on the previous day




= November

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November 7 — Oil is discovered beneath the Caspian Sea, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic




= December

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December 21 — Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday is celebrated in Moscow
December 25–31 — Khabarovsk War Crime Trials




Births


January 1 — Abdumalik Abdullajanov, 3rd Prime Minister of Tajikistan
January 2
Gennady Novitsky, 5th Prime Minister of Belarus
Nikolai Pankin, breaststroke swimmer and swimming coach (d. 2018)
January 3 — Nikolai Paltsev, politician (d. 2021)
January 29 — Evgeny Lovchev, footballer
February 16 — Yevgeny Nazdratenko, 2nd Governor of Primorsky Krai
February 25 — Viktor Klimenko, Olympic gymnast
February 26 — Viktor Ulyanich, boxer (d. 2014)
March 4 — Sergei Bagapsh, 2nd President of Abkhazia (d. 2011)
March 8 — Natalia Kuchinskaya, Olympic gymnast
March 17 — Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter
March 18 — Boris Grachevsky, film director (d. 2021)
March 19 — Valery Leontiev, actor and singer
April 7 — Valentina Matviyenko, 4th Chairwoman of the Federation Council of Russia
April 8 — Galust Sahakyan, 10th President of the National Assembly of Armenia (d. 2022)
April 15 — Alla Pugacheva, singer and songwriter
April 19 — Sergey Volkov, figure skater (d. 1990)
April 21 — Vasily Guslyannikov, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia
April 29 — Vasily Bochkaryov, 3rd Governor of Penza Oblast (d. 2016)
May 2 — Aleksandr Kozlov, 3rd Governor of Oryol Oblast (d. 2021)
May 15 — Nikolay Podgornov, 1st Governor of Vologda Oblast
May 21 — Lyubov Polishchuk, actress (d. 2006)
May 29 — Aleksandr Tsapin, 3rd Governor of Voronezh Oblast
June 12 — Yuri Baturin, cosmonaut
June 19 — Bolot Ayushiyev, 2nd Head of Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug
June 20 — Vladimir Pechyony, 4th Governor of Magadan Oblast
July 3 — Aleksandr Salnikov, basketball player (d. 2017)
July 16 — Ishenbai Kadyrbekov, 4th Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan
July 31 — Valeriu Maravschi, 1st Prime Minister of Moldova (d. 2020)
August 1 — Kurmanbek Bakiyev, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
August 3 — Valeri Vasiliev, hockey player (d. 2012)
August 5 — Yury Morozov, 9th Prime Minister of South Ossetia
August 6 — Nikolay Kovalyov, 3rd Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia (d. 2019)
August 11 — Vladimir Vasilyev, 5th Head of the Republic of Dagestan
August 23 — Mikhail Golovatov, intelligence officer (d. 2022)
September 16 — Kabibulla Dzhakupov, 7th Chairman of the Mäjilis of Kazakhstan
September 17 — Marat Ospanov, 1st Chairman of the Mäjilis of Kazakhstan (d. 2000)
September 18 — Gennady Komnatov, cyclist (d. 1979)
September 23 — Elena Guskova, historian
October 2 — Alexander Aksinin, painter (d. 1985)
October 20 — Valeriy Borzov, athlete
October 28 — Volodymyr Onyshchenko, footballer
November 1 — Alexander Pushnitsa, sambo practitioner (d. 2023)
November 3 — Alexander Gradsky, singer (d. 2021)
November 4 — Abdujalil Samadov, 4th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2004)
November 11 — Vladimir Polevanov, 3rd Governor of Amur Oblast
November 14 — Vladimir Torlopov, 2nd Head of the Komi Republic
November 21
Elena Mikhailovskaya, female draughts player (d. 1995)
Anatoliy Kuksov, footballer (d. 2022)
November 23 — Viktor Poganovsky, Olympic equestrian
November 29 — Vazha Lortkipanidze, 2nd State Minister of Georgia
December 11 — Boris Scherbakov, film and theater actor
December 21 — Aleksandr Kharchikov, folk singer-songwriter (d. 2023)




Deaths


January 16 — Vasily Degtyaryov, firearms designer (b. 1880)
February 20 — Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, poet and lyricist (b. 1898)
April 7 — Mikhail Denisenko, general (b. 1899)
May 18 — Nikolai Semashko, 1st People's Commissar of Health of the Soviet Union (b. 1874)
May 24 — Alexey Shchusev, architect (b. 1873)
May 30 — Igor Belkovich, astronomer (b. 1904)
October 1 — Nykyta Budka, priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (b. 1877)
October 14 — Roman Lysko, priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (b. 1914)
October 17 — Fyodor Tolbukhin, military commander (b. 1894)
November 11 — Ignatiy Stelletsky, archaeologist, historian and researcher (b. 1878)
December 3 — Maria Ouspenskaya, actress and acting teacher (b. 1876)
December 31 — Raimond Valgre, composer and musician (b. 1913)




See also


1949 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
List of Soviet films of 1949




References

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• Uni Eropa
• Alexey Akhmanov
• 1949 in the Soviet Union
• Soviet Union
• Soviet atomic bomb project
• Soviet empire
• Repression of science in the Soviet Union
• Soviet Union–United States relations
• Antisemitism in the Soviet Union
• Dissolution of the Soviet Union
• Anti-cosmopolitan campaign
• RDS-1