The following lists events that happened during 1965 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
:Leonid Brezhnev
:Anastas Mikoyan (Until 9 December 1965)
:Nikolai Podgorny (Starting 9 December 1965)
:Alexei Kosygin
Events
February
March
April
May
September
Births
- January 12 â Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
- January 14 â Shamil Basayev, Chechen guerrilla leader (d. 2006)
- January 23 â Armen Darbinyan, 7th Prime Minister of Armenia
- January 26 â Natalia Yurchenko, artistic gymnast
- May 15 â Gulshara Abdykhalikova, 11th State Secretary of Kazakhstan
- June 1 â Larisa Lazutina, cross-country skier
- June 15 â Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- September 14 â Dmitry Medvedev, 3rd President of Russia
- September 26
- Alexei Mordashov, Russian billionaire businessman
- Petro Poroshenko, 5th President of Ukraine
- October 14 â Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
- October 23 â Asqar Mamin, 10th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- October 30 â Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
- November 30 â Radion Gataullin, pole vaulter
- December 30 â Valentina Legkostupova, pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020)
Deaths
- January 3 â Alexander Poskrebyshev, former Head of the Special Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1891)
- January 17 â Alexander Sirotkin, lieutenant general and division commander (b. 1890)
- January 30 â Frol Kozlov, member of the 20thâÂÂ21st and 22nd Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1908)
- February 2 â Alexander Akimov, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
- February 18 â Yevgeny Charushin, illustrator and author (b. 1901)
- March 3 â Vincas Vitkauskas, general (b. 1890)
- March 20 â Ivan Boldin, senior Red Army general (b. 1892)
- April 9 â Anton Lopatin, lieutenant general (b. 1897)
- May 1 â Stepan Povetkin, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
- May 27 â Yevgeny Pavlovsky, zoologist and entomologist (b. 1884)
- May 28 â Vladimir Gardin, film director and actor (b. 1877)
- June 21 â Piotr Buchkin, painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher (b. 1886)
- July 16 â Nikoloz Berdzenishvili, historian (b. 1895)
- August 27
- Sergei Kurashov, 9th Minister of Health of the Soviet Union (b. 1910)
- Alexander Todorsky, general and komkor (b. 1894)
- September 22 â Grigory Nikulin, Bolshevik revolutionary (b. 1895)
- October 14 â Saja Batyrow, 9th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (b. 1908)
- November 1 â Seyid Shushinski, khananda folk singer (b. 1889)
- November 18 â Teymur Guliyev, 1st & 3rd Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1888)
- November 23 â Oskar Sepre, Estonian communist politician (b. 1900)
See also
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