1961 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1961 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

Births

30 March - Sergei Nozikov, former Russian professional footballer

1 June - Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary chief

Deaths

4 October - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Soviet Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)

Events

1 September - first of the 1961 Soviet nuclear tests

13 September - Exhibition of Leningrad artists

5 November - 1961 Elbarusovo school fire killed 110 students and teachers.

See also

1961 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

List of Soviet films of 1961

References

1960s in the Soviet Union

Years in the Soviet Union

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