1971 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1971 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
• Premier of the Soviet Union: Nikolai Bulganin
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov

Events

January

• January 1 — Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna, a comic variety duet of actors, appear in the telecast 'Terem-Teremok'.

April

• April 19 — The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1.

Births

• January 31 —Andriy Parubiy, Ukrainian politician (d. 2025)
• February 8 — Dmitry Nelyubin, track cyclist (d. 2005)
• February 27 — Zaal Udumashvili, Georgian politician
• March 31 — Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
• April 3 — Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Russian actress and television presenter (d. 2024)
• April 21 — Valentin Morkov, Russian professional football coach and a former player
• July 22 — Mikheil Kavelashvili, 6th President of Georgia
• August 5 — Valdis Dombrovskis, 20th Prime Minister of Latvia
• September 1 — Gennady Bachinsky, Russian TV and radio host (d. 2008)
• December 15 — Vasily Aleksanyan, Russian lawyer and a former Executive Vice President of Yukos oil company (d. 2011)
• December 25 — Vladislav Galkin, Russian actor (d. 2010)

Deaths

• January 10 — Nadezhda Peshkova, artist (b. 1901)
• January 31 — Viktor Zhirmunsky, literary historian and linguist (b. 1891)
• April 2 — Vladimir Krinsky, artist and architect (b. 1890)
• April 12 — Igor Tamm, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• April 29 — Nikolai Barabashov, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1894)
• June 18 — Vladimir Biryukov, lexicographer (b. 1888)
• June 29 — Crew of Soyuz 11
• Georgy Dobrovolsky (b. 1928)
• Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
• Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
• July 22 — Roman Mashkov, military intelligence officer (b. 1922)
• September 11 — Nikita Khrushchev, 3rd Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1894)
• September 18 — Aleksandr Prokofiev, poet (b. 1900)
• September 28 — Vasily Butusov, footballer (b. 1892)
• October 17 — Sergey Kavtaradze, politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
• October 20 — Nikolai Basistiy, Soviet Navy officer (b. 1898)
• November 1 — Mikhail Romm, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue (b. 1901)
• November 15 — Rudolf Abel, intelligence officer (b. 1903)
• November 29 — Ivan Samylovsly, diplomat, politician and journalist (b. 1905)
• December 5 — Andrey Andreyev, former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• December 8 — Ernst Krenkel, Arctic explorer and radio operator (b. 1903)
• December 18 — Aleksandr Tvardovsky, poet and writer (b. 1910)

References

See also

• 1971 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1971