The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
March
April
June
August
- August 13 â The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.
Births
- January 3 â Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins (d. 2003)
- January 17 â Viktor Kosykh, Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor (d. 2011)
- January 21 â Leonid Kosakivsky, First elected mayor of Kyiv
- February 17 â Albertas Simenas, 2nd Prime Minister of Lithuania
- March 21 â Sergey Lavrov, 4th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- April 8 â Yevgeny Savchenko, 2nd Governor of Belgorod Oblast
- April 12 â Pavel Ipatov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast
- April 16 â Igor Farkhutdinov, 3rd Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (d. 2003)
- April 20 â Alexander Lebed, 3rd Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (d. 2002)
- April 25 â Boris Ebzeyev, 3rd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
- May 6 â Mikhail Myasnikovich, 7th Prime Minister of Belarus
- May 12 â Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia
- May 17 â Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Soviet and Russian dissident, writer and liberal politician (d. 2014)
- May 31
- Edgar Savisaar, 1st Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Estonia (d. 2022)
- Alexander Filipenko, 1st Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
- June 18 â Alexander Solovyov, 2nd Head of the Udmurt Republic (d. 2023)
- June 22 â Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and diplomat (d. 2009)
- June 26 â Jaak Joala, Estonian singer (d. 2010)
- July 9 â Viktor Yanukovych, 4th President of Ukraine
- August 11 â Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapons designer (d. 2003)
- August 23 â Roza Otunbayeva, 3rd President of Kyrgyzstan
- August 25 â Oleg Betin, 2nd Governor of Tambov Oblast (d. 2023)
- September 1 â Mikhail Fradkov, 8th Prime Minister of Russia
- October 1 â Boris Morukov, Russian physicist and astronaut (d. 2015)
- October 4 â Oleg Bogomolov, 3rd Governor of Kurgan Oblast
- November 9 â Dmitry Ayatskov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast
- November 16 â Viktor Shershunov, 2nd Governor of Kostroma Oblast (d. 2007)
- December 7 â Hasanaga Sadigov, Azerbaijani ashik singer (d. 2018)
- December 9 â Vladimir Pekhtin, Russian politician
- December 11 â Alexander Tatarsky, Russian film director (d. 2007)
- December 15 â Boris Gryzlov, 3rd Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
- December 21 â Nikolay Kiselyov, 3rd Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast
- December 24 â Mustafa Batdyyev, 2nd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
Deaths
- March 15 â Alexander Kobiskoy, WWII air force flying ace (b. 1920)
- April 8 â Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1889)
- May 20 â Peter Petrovich Troyanskii, educator and scholar (b. 1894)
- June 26 â Antonina Nezhdanova, soprano (b. 1873)
- July 12 â Lev Galler, admiral (b. 1883)
- August 8 â Nikolai Myaskovsky, composer (b. 1881)
- August 24
- Grigory Kulik, military officer (b. 1890)
- Vasily Gordov, general (b. 1896)
- October 1
- Nikolai Voznesensky, politician and economic planner (b. 1903)
- Alexey Kuznetsov, statesman and functionary (b. 1905)
- Mikhail Rodionov, 9th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1907)
- October 19 â Viktor Strazhev, bibliographer, translator, poet and literary critic (b. 1879)
- November 12 â Hryhoriy Lakota, Eastern Catholic bishop (b. 1883)
- November 13 â Antonina Zubkova, WWII bomber pilot (b. 1920)
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