1962 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
[edit]- First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Nikita Khrushchev
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union - Leonid Brezhnev
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union - Nikita Khrushchev
Events
[edit]June
[edit]- 1–2 June – Novocherkassk massacre
- 17 June – K-3 becomes the first Soviet submarine to reach the North Pole. [1]
- 30 June – Aeroflot Flight 902 crashes 28 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk airport, killing all 84 on board. [2]
October
[edit]- 14–28 October – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.
Births
[edit]- 4 January – Natalya Bochina, sprinter
- 17 January – Igor Surovikin, Russian professional football coach and former player
- 6 April – Natalie Holland, Russian-born contemporary artist[3]
- 30 August – Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned former KGB and FSB colonel
Deaths
[edit]- 19 September – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (b. 1900)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "The Triumph and Tragedy of the Leninskiy Komsomol". rusnavy.com. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
- ^ "Criminal occurrence description". Aircraft Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ "Natalie Holland". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 2007.
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