1950 in the Soviet Union

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The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

## 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 — Nikolay Shvernik
* Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin

## Events

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### January

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* January 5 — 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster

### February

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* February 14 — The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.

### March

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* March 12 — Soviet Union legislative election, 1950

### April

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* April 2 — Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.

### June

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* June 28 – July 4 — The Pavlovian session is held.

### August

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* August 13 — The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.

## Births

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* January 3 — Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins (d. 2003)
* January 17 — Viktor Kosykh, Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor (d. 2011)
* January 21 — Leonid Kosakivsky, First elected mayor of Kyiv
* February 17 — Albertas Simenas, 2nd Prime Minister of Lithuania
* March 21 — Sergey Lavrov, 4th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
* April 8 — Yevgeny Savchenko, 2nd Governor of Belgorod Oblast
* April 12 — Pavel Ipatov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast
* April 16 — Igor Farkhutdinov, 3rd Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (d. 2003)
* April 20 — Alexander Lebed, 3rd Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (d. 2002)
* April 25 — Boris Ebzeyev, 3rd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
* May 6 — Mikhail Myasnikovich, 7th Prime Minister of Belarus
* May 12 — Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia
* May 17 — Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Soviet and Russian dissident, writer and liberal politician (d. 2014)
* May 31
* Edgar Savisaar, 1st Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Estonia (d. 2022)
* Alexander Filipenko, 1st Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
* June 18 — Alexander Solovyov, 2nd Head of the Udmurt Republic (d. 2023)
* June 22 — Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and diplomat (d. 2009)
* June 26 — Jaak Joala, Estonian singer (d. 2010)
* July 9 — Viktor Yanukovych, 4th President of Ukraine
* August 11 — Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapons designer (d. 2003)
* August 23 — Roza Otunbayeva, 3rd President of Kyrgyzstan
* August 25 — Oleg Betin, 2nd Governor of Tambov Oblast (d. 2023)
* September 1 — Mikhail Fradkov, 8th Prime Minister of Russia
* October 1 — Boris Morukov, Russian physicist and astronaut (d. 2015)
* October 4 — Oleg Bogomolov, 3rd Governor of Kurgan Oblast
* November 9 — Dmitry Ayatskov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast
* November 16 — Viktor Shershunov, 2nd Governor of Kostroma Oblast (d. 2007)
* December 7 — Hasanaga Sadigov, Azerbaijani ashik singer (d. 2018)
* December 9 — Vladimir Pekhtin, Russian politician
* December 11 — Alexander Tatarsky, Russian film director (d. 2007)
* December 15 — Boris Gryzlov, 3rd Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
* December 21 — Nikolay Kiselyov, 3rd Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast
* December 24 — Mustafa Batdyyev, 2nd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia

## Deaths

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* March 15 — Alexander Kobiskoy, WWII air force flying ace (b. 1920)
* April 8 — Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1889)
* May 20 — Peter Petrovich Troyanskii, educator and scholar (b. 1894)
* June 26 — Antonina Nezhdanova, soprano (b. 1873)
* July 12 — Lev Galler, admiral (b. 1883)
* August 8 — Nikolai Myaskovsky, composer (b. 1881)[1]
* August 24
* Grigory Kulik, military officer (b. 1890)
* Vasily Gordov, general (b. 1896)
* October 1
* Nikolai Voznesensky, politician and economic planner (b. 1903)
* Alexey Kuznetsov, statesman and functionary (b. 1905)
* Mikhail Rodionov, 9th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1907)
* October 19 — Viktor Strazhev, bibliographer, translator, poet and literary critic (b. 1879)
* November 12 — Hryhoriy Lakota, Eastern Catholic bishop (b. 1883)
* November 13 — Antonina Zubkova, WWII bomber pilot (b. 1920)

## See also

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* 1950 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
* List of Soviet films of 1950

## References

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1. ^ Jaffé, Daniel (8 March 2012). Historical Dictionary of Russian Music. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. pp. 226–227\. ISBN 978-0-8108-7980-5.

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1950 in Europe

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* Åland
* Cyprus
* Faroe Islands
* Gibraltar
* Guernsey
* Isle of Man
* Jersey
* Malta

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* Afghanistan
*   *   *   *   * Bhutan
*   * Burma (Myanmar)
*   *   * Ceylon
* China
*   * Egypt
*   * India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
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* Jordan
*   *   * North Korea
* South Korea
*   *   * Laos
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*   *   * Mongolia
*   * Nepal
* Oman
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*   * Philippines
*   *   * Saudi Arabia
*   * Sikkim
*   * Soviet Union
*   * Syria
*   * Thailand
*   *   * Turkey
*   *   *   *   * North Vietnam
*   *   * North Yemen

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* 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
*   *   *   *   *   * Taiwan
* Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
* Tibet
* Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
* Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic

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* Bahrain
*   *   *   * Brunei
*   *   * Colony of Aden
* Cyprus
*   * French India
* French Indochina
*   * Kuwait
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