The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
Events
Births
Deaths
- January 10 â Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
- January 31 â Mikhail Mil, helicopter manufacturer (b. 1909)
- March 31 â Semyon Timoshenko, 2nd People's Commissar for Defence (b. 1895)
- April 1 â Polina Zhemchuzhina, politician and wife of former foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov (b. 1897)
- April 17 â Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (b. 1877)
- June 11 â Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary, lawyer and politician (b. 1881)
- June 21 â Lev Kassil, writer (b. 1905)
- August 22 â Vladimir Propp, folklorist and scholar (b. 1895)
- September 9 â Konon Molody, intelligence officer (b. 1922)
- November 17 â Nikolai Lunin, admiral in the Soviet Navy (b. 1907)
- November 19
- Andrei Yeremenko, military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
- Maria Yudina, pianist (b. 1899)
- December 8 â Abram Alikhanov, experimental physicist (b. 1904)
- December 24 â Nikolai Shvernik, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (b. 1888)
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