1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92
1993 Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin
1993 Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
1992 Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
1991 Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union
1991 Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence
1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
1991 Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union
1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1991 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
1991 Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence, Warsaw Pact dissolves
1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
1990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1990 Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
1990 U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1990 Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of U.S.S.R. supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1989 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons
1989 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1989 Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1988 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
1988 Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1988 U.S. and Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya wed
1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union
1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1987 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
1986 U.S. releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1986 New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet United Nations employee) of spying
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1985 Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1984 Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1984 Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet
1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
1982 Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 77
1982 Mihail A Suslov, Soviet party ideologist, dies at 79
1980 Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76
1980 Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown
1979 Brit government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1979 Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space
1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki
1976 Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
1976 President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus
1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west
1973 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes
1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1971 West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1970 Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1969 Alexander Mogilny, Khavarovsk, 1st soviet to defect to NHL, Sabres
1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
1969 Jan Palach, protesting Soviet invasion of Czech, self immolates at 20
1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
1968 Czechoslovakia and Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
1968 Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
1967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R.
1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1964 Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
1964 Otto V Kuusinen, President of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82
1963 Soviet lunar probe failure
1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1962 John F. Kennedy warns Russia U.S. will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
1962 Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of U.S.S.R.
1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
1961 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S.
1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his U.S. visit
1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit
1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st sect of Communist Party
1957 U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000
1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City)
1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
1956 Hungary appeals for United Nations assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary
1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1955 Last Soviet forces leave Austria
1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
1953 Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed
1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
1953 Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73
1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1948 U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1948 U.S. denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel
1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist
1947 Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
1946 Michail I Kalinin, President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1945 Soviet army reach Rostock
1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
1945 Warsaw freed by Soviet army
1945 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army
1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
1944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia
1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania
1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
1944 Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk
1944 Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
1943 Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
1943 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr
1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
1943 Soviet troops free Karkov
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod
1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1942 Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union
1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1941 Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
1941 Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states
1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1940 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania
1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
1939 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-attack treaty
1939 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
1939 Estonia accepts Soviet military bases
1939 Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
1938 Anatoly Marchenko, Siberia, Soviet dissident
1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman
1936 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union
1936 French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime
1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
1933 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1933 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1932 France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
1932 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union
1931 Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye U.S.S.R., Soviet secretary general from 1985-91
1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
1928 Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of U.S.S.R., -91
1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1925 Uzbekistan and Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
1924 Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1923 Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
1923 Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
1922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.)
1922 German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1921 Soviet troops invade Georgia
1920 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1919 Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Bela Kuns Soviet Republic
1919 Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated
1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1919 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech
1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1917 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
1917 New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary)
1917 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
1917 Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military
1917 Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1912 Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole
1908 Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author, 50th Anniv of Soviet Union
1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia
1905 Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM, 1980-85
1904 Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier, 1964-80
1899 Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin
1896 Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director, Sjagai, Soviet!
1895 Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet
1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution
1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution
1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist, Mother, Deserter
1892 Edward H Carr, born in England, historian, History of Soviet Russia
1890 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, UN
1886 Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919
1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, President of 1st Soviet,
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