1965 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1965 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

• First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:

:Leonid Brezhnev

• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union:

:Anastas Mikoyan (Until 9 December 1965)

:Nikolai Podgorny (Starting 9 December 1965)

• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union:

:Alexei Kosygin

Events

February

• February 4 — Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience.
• February 6 — Premier Alexei Kosygin visits Hanoi as a member of a diplomatic mission to announce further military aid for North Vietnam.

March

• March 18 — Alexei Leonov aboard the Voskhod 2 becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk, lasting 12 minutes.
• March 24 — Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev accuses the United States of 'pirate raids' against North Vietnam.

April

• April 24 — The 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations took in honor 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, seeking further recognition.

May

• May 9 — The 1965 Moscow Victory Day Parade is held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2.

September

• September 18 — Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.
• The Central Committee ratifies the 1965 Soviet Economic Reform (sometimes called the Kosygin Reform).

Births

• January 12 — Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
• January 14 — Shamil Basayev, Chechen guerrilla leader (d. 2006)
• January 23 — Armen Darbinyan, 7th Prime Minister of Armenia
• January 26 — Natalia Yurchenko, artistic gymnast
• May 15 — Gulshara Abdykhalikova, 11th State Secretary of Kazakhstan
• June 1 — Larisa Lazutina, cross-country skier
• June 15 — Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
• September 14 — Dmitry Medvedev, 3rd President of Russia
• September 26
• Alexei Mordashov, Russian billionaire businessman
• Petro Poroshenko, 5th President of Ukraine
• October 14 — Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
• October 23 — Asqar Mamin, 10th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
• October 30 — Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
• November 30 — Radion Gataullin, pole vaulter
• December 30 — Valentina Legkostupova, pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020)

Deaths

• January 3 — Alexander Poskrebyshev, former Head of the Special Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1891)
• January 17 — Alexander Sirotkin, lieutenant general and division commander (b. 1890)
• January 30 — Frol Kozlov, member of the 20th–21st and 22nd Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1908)
• February 2 — Alexander Akimov, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
• February 18 — Yevgeny Charushin, illustrator and author (b. 1901)
• March 3 — Vincas Vitkauskas, general (b. 1890)
• March 20 — Ivan Boldin, senior Red Army general (b. 1892)
• April 9 — Anton Lopatin, lieutenant general (b. 1897)
• May 1 — Stepan Povetkin, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
• May 27 — Yevgeny Pavlovsky, zoologist and entomologist (b. 1884)
• May 28 — Vladimir Gardin, film director and actor (b. 1877)
• June 21 — Piotr Buchkin, painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher (b. 1886)
• July 16 — 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 — Grigory Nikulin, Bolshevik revolutionary (b. 1895)
• October 14 — Saja Batyrow, 9th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (b. 1908)
• November 1 — Seyid Shushinski, khananda folk singer (b. 1889)
• November 18 — Teymur Guliyev, 1st & 3rd Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1888)
• November 23 — Oskar Sepre, Estonian communist politician (b. 1900)

See also

• 1965 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1965

References