1962 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1962 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

Events

• 1962 Soviet nuclear tests
• Operation Anadyr

June

• June 1–2 — Novocherkassk massacre
• June 17 — K-3 becomes the first Soviet submarine to reach the North Pole.
• June 30 — Aeroflot Flight 902 crashes 28 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk airport, killing all 84 on board.

October

• October 14–28 — The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.

Births

• January 1 — Vladimir Popov, Russian wrestler (d. 2025)
• January 4 — Natalya Bochina, sprinter
• January 17 — Igor Surovikin, Russian professional football coach and former player
• January 22 — Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Russian athlete
• April 6 — Natalie Holland, Russian-born contemporary artist
• August 30 — Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB and FSB colonel (d. 2006)
• September 5 — Tatyana Koshkaryova, Russian journalist
• November 5 – Irina Mishina, Russian journalist and television presenter

Deaths

• January 6 — Marziyya Davudova, actress (b. 1901)
• February 22 — Boris Vannikov, politician and political commissar (b. 1897)
• March 11 — Viacheslav Ragozin, chess player, writer and editor (b. 1908)
• March 19 — Vasily Stalin, general and son of Joseph Stalin (b. 1921)
• June 9 — Andrey Khrulyov, military commander (b. 1892)
• June 16 — Aleksei Antonov, general (b. 1896)
• June 27 — Paul Viiding, poet, author and literary critic (b. 1904)
• September 19 — Nikolai Pogodin, playwright (b. 1900)
• October 28 — Vera Pashennaya, stage and film actress and pedagogue (b. 1887)

See also

• 1962 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1962

References