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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- January 10 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (peritonitis; born 1925)[9]
- June 11 (in the United States) – Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary and politician (born 1881)[10]
References
[edit]- ^ 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 at World Athletics
- ^ "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.
