• Source: 1962 in the Soviet Union

      • The following lists events that happened during 1962 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


      Events


      1962 Soviet nuclear tests
      Operation Anadyr


      = June

      =
      1–2 June – Novocherkassk massacre
      17 June – K-3 becomes the first Soviet submarine to reach the North Pole.
      30 June – Aeroflot Flight 902 crashes 28 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk airport, killing all 84 on board.


      = October

      =
      14–28 October – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.


      Births


      4 January – Natalya Bochina, sprinter
      17 January – Igor Surovikin, Russian professional football coach and former player
      6 April – Natalie Holland, Russian-born contemporary artist
      30 August – Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned former KGB and FSB colonel


      Deaths


      19 September – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (b. 1900)


      See also


      1962 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
      List of Soviet films of 1962


      References

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