• Source: 1981 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1981 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.




Incumbents


General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
Premier of the Soviet Union: Nikolai Tikhonov
Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union – Lev Smirnov




Events


1 April – Daylight saving time was implemented for the first time in the USSR
28 April – The USSR national team won the World Ice Hockey Championship in Sweden




Births


31 January – Yulia Nachalova, singer (d. 2019)
18 February – Andrei Kirilenko, basketball player
19 March – Maksim Arap, footballer
26 March – Danis Zaripov, ice hockey player
30 March – Sergei Mozyakin, ice hockey player
8 April – Nikolay Kruglov Jr., biathlete
12 April – Yuriy Borzakovskiy, middle-distance runner
17 April – Konstantin Koltsov, ice hockey player (d. 2024)
30 April – Peter Nalitch, singer
29 May – Andrey Arshavin, footballer
2 June – Nikolay Davydenko, tennis player
7 June – Anna Kournikova, tennis player
26 June – Natalya Antyukh, athlete
6 July – Roman Shirokov, footballer
8 July – Anastasia Myskina, tennis player
30 August – Daniil Vorobyov, film and theatre actor
2 September – Aleksey Chadov, film actor
3 September – Evgeniya Brik, actress (d. 2022)
15 October – Marina Toybina, fashion and costume designer
31 October – Irina Denezhkina, writer
2 November – Tatiana Totmianina, pair skater
5 November – Ksenia Sobchak, political figure
30 November – Olga Krasko, actress
15 December – Roman Pavlyuchenko, footballer
16 December – Olga Medynich, theater and film actress
23 December – Anastasiya Makeyeva, actress and model
24 December – Dima Bilan, singer, songwriter




Deaths


February 7 — Emil Spiridonov, navy officer (b. 1925)
March 3 — Oleg Dal, actor (b. 1941)
March 7 — Kirill Kondrashin, conductor (b. 1914)
March 21 — Mark Donskoy (b. 1901)
March 28 — Yuri Trifonov, leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose" (b. 1925)
April 1 — Agniya Barto, poet and writer (b. 1901)
April 16 — Leonid Melnykov, politician and diplomat (b. 1906)
April 28
Lev Loktev, artillery designer (b. 1908)
Grigory Shpigel, actor (b. 1914)
August 27 — Valeri Kharlamov, ice hockey player (b. 1948)
November 18 — Alexey Okladnikov, archaeologist and ethnographer (b. 1908)
November 30 — Tankho Israilov, ballet dancer (b. 1917)
December 4 — Valentin Fyodorov, football player and coach (b. 1911)
December 11 — Zoya Fyodorova, actress (b. 1907)
December 15 — Mikhail Zharov, actor and director (b. 1899)




See also


List of Soviet films of 1981
1981 in fine arts of the Soviet Union




References

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