1940 in the Soviet Union

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* List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1940 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.[1]

## Incumbents

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* General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin
* Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Mikhail Kalinin
* Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union — Vyacheslav Molotov

## Births

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### January

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* January 11 — Andres Tarand, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
* January 17 — Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova (d. 2023)
* January 18 — Alexander Almetov, Soviet and Russian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
* January 27 — Petru Lucinschi, 2nd President of Moldova
* January 30 — Leonid Polezhayev, 1st Governor of Omsk Oblast

### February

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* February 4 — Yuri Veksler, cinematographer (d. 1991)
* February 16 — Nikolai Kondratenko, 5th Governor of Krasnodar Krai (d. 2013)
* February 17 — Alexei Fridman, Soviet and Russian physicist (d. 2010)
* February 19 — Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)

### March

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* March 4 — Vladimir Morozov, sprint canoeist (d. 2023)
* March 7 — Viktor Savinykh, cosmonaut
* March 8 — Viktor Kalashnikov, 1st Governor of Voronezh Oblast (d. 2023)
* March 9 — Larisa Golubkina, actress
* March 16 — Vagif Mustafazadeh, jazz pianist and composer (d. 1979)
* March 20 — Igor Ryomin, football player (d. 1991)

### May

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* May 4 — Viktor Getmanov, football player (d. 1995)
* May 9 — Inna Gulaya, theatre and cinema actress (d. 1990)
* May 15 — Svetlana Svetlichnaya, Soviet and Russian actress
* May 24 — Joseph Brodsky, poet and essayist (d. 1996)
* May 28 — Valentin Gerasimov, 1st Governor of Kurgan Oblast

### June

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* June 8 — Vladimir Semyonov, 2nd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
* June 13 — Valery Sudarenkov, 3rd Governor of Kaluga Oblast
* June 20 — Lyudmila Marchenko, Soviet and Russian film actress (d. 1997)
* June 26 — Vyacheslav Ionov, Soviet and Russian sprint canoeist (d. 2012)
* June 28 — Alina Vedmid, politician and agronomist (d. 2008)[2]
* June 29 — Vyacheslav Artyomov, composer

### July

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* July 6 — Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan
* July 14 — Utkir Sultonov, 2nd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan (d. 2015)
* July 19 — Anzor Kavazashvili, football goalkeeper

### August

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* August 4 — Jamshed Karimov, 5th Prime Minister of Tajikistan
* August 6 — Mukhu Aliyev, 2nd Head of the Republic of Dagestan
* August 15 — Aleksandr Surikov, 3rd Governor of Altai Krai
* August 20 — Musa Geshaev, Chechen poet (d. 2014)
* August 31 — Gennady Vasilyev, Soviet and Russian film director (d. 1999)

### September

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* September 14 — Gennady Kuptsov, 1st Governor of Lipetsk Oblast

### October

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* October 5
* Rein Aun, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1995)
* Viktor Pavlov, actor (d. 2006)
* October 9 — Valery Nosik, actor (d. 1995)
* October 18 — Aleksandr Starovoitov, Soviet and Russian security services and academic officer (d. 2021)
* October 20
* Hasan Hasanov, 1st Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
* Viktor Barannikov, 10th Minister of Interior Affairs of the Soviet Union (d. 1995)

### December

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* December 22 — Doku Zavgayev, Soviet and Russian diplomat and politician
* December 24 — Saylau Serikov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kazakh SSR (d. 1991)

## Deaths

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* January 27 — Isaac Babel, writer, journalist playwright and literary translator (b. 1894)
* February 2
* Vsevolod Meyerhold, theatre director, actor and theatrical producer (b. 1874)
* Robert Eikhe, politician (b. 1890)
* Mikhail Koltsov, journalist, revolutionary and NKVD agent (b. 1898)
* February 4
* Nikolai Yezhov, Head of NKVD (b. 1895)
* Mikhail Frinovsky, secret police official (b. 1898)
* March 10 — Mikhail Bulgakov, writer, medical doctor and playwright (b. 1891)
* August 21 — Leon Trotsky, politician and political theorist (b. 1879)
* December 2 — Nikolai Koltsov, biologist (b. 1872)

## See also

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* 1940 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
* List of Soviet films of 1940

## References

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1. ^ Bloch, Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton, ed. The World Over in 1940 (1941) detailed coverage of world events online free; 914pp
2. ^ "Ведмідь Аліна Петрівна" [Vedmid Alina Petrovna] (in Ukrainian). Leaders of the Regions. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

## Further reading

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* Bloch, Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton, ed. The World Over in 1940 (1941) detailed coverage of world events online free; 914pp

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1940 in Europe

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* Albania
* Andorra
*   *   *   *   *   * Baden
*   *   *   * Belgium
*   *   * Bulgaria
*   *   *   *   *   *   * Denmark
*   *   *   *   * Finland
* France
*   * Germany
*   * Greece
*   *   * Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Italy
*   *   *   * Liechtenstein
*   * Luxembourg
*   *   *   *   *   * Monaco
*   *   *   *   * Netherlands
*   * Norway
*   *   *   * Portugal
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* Russian SFSR
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* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
*   * United Kingdom
*   * Vatican City
*   *   *   * Yugoslavia

Dependencies, colonies
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* Åland
* Cyprus
*   * Gibraltar
* Guernsey
* Isle of Man
* Jersey
* Malta

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* Afghanistan
*   *   *   *   * Bhutan
*   *   *   *   * Ceylon
* China
*   * Egypt
*   *   *   * Iran
* Iraq
*   * Japan
*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Nepal
* Oman
*   *   *   *   *   * Philippines
*   *   * Saudi Arabia
*   * Sikkim
*   * Soviet Union
*   *   *   * Thailand
*   * Transjordan
* Turkey
*   *   *   *   *   *   *   * North Yemen

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*   * Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
* Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
* Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic
* Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Mongolia
*   *   *   *   *   * Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
* Tibet
* Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
* Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic

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* British India
*   * British Malaya
* Brunei
*   *   * Colony of Aden
* Cyprus
* Dutch East Indies
* French India
* French Indochina
*   * Kuwait
*   *   * Mandatory Palestine
* Mandatory Syria
* Taiwan

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