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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
15 July -
Nina Bari
, Russian mathematician (b.
1901
)
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