1965 in the Soviet Union

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The following lists events that happened during 1965 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .

Incumbents

• First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:

Leonid Brezhnev

• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union:

Anastas Mikoyan (Until 9 December 1965)

Nikolai Podgorny (Starting 9 December 1965)

• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union:

Alexei Kosygin

Events

February

• February 4 — Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience.
• February 6 — Premier Alexei Kosygin visits Hanoi as a member of a diplomatic mission to announce further military aid for North Vietnam.

March

• March 18 — Alexei Leonov aboard the Voskhod 2 becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk, lasting 12 minutes. ^{[1] [2]}
• March 24 — Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev accuses the United States of 'pirate raids' against North Vietnam. ^[3]

April

• April 24 — The 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations took in honor 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, seeking further recognition. ^[4]

May

• May 9 — The 1965 Moscow Victory Day Parade is held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2.

September

• September 18 — Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate. ^[5]
• The Central Committee ratifies the 1965 Soviet Economic Reform (sometimes called the Kosygin Reform). ^[6]

Births

• January 12 — Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
• January 14 — Shamil Basayev, Chechen guerrilla leader (d. 2006)
• January 23 — Armen Darbinyan, 7th Prime Minister of Armenia
• January 26 — Natalia Yurchenko, artistic gymnast
• May 15 — Gulshara Abdykhalikova, 11th State Secretary of Kazakhstan
• June 1 — Larisa Lazutina, cross-country skier
• June 15 — Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
• September 14 — Dmitry Medvedev, 3rd President of Russia
• September 26
  • Alexei Mordashov, Russian billionaire businessman
  • Petro Poroshenko, 5th President of Ukraine
• October 14 — Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
• October 23 — Asqar Mamin, 10th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
• October 30 — Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
• November 30 — Radion Gataullin, pole vaulter
• December 30 — Valentina Legkostupova, pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020)

Deaths

• January 3 — Alexander Poskrebyshev, former Head of the Special Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1891)
• January 17 — Alexander Sirotkin, lieutenant general and division commander (b. 1890)
• January 30 — Frol Kozlov, member of the 20th–21st and 22nd Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1908)
• February 2 — Alexander Akimov, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
• February 18 — Yevgeny Charushin, illustrator and author (b. 1901)
• March 3 — Vincas Vitkauskas, general (b. 1890)
• March 20 — Ivan Boldin, senior Red Army general (b. 1892)
• April 9 — Anton Lopatin, lieutenant general (b. 1897)
• May 1 — Stepan Povetkin, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
• May 27 — Yevgeny Pavlovsky, zoologist and entomologist (b. 1884)
• May 28 — Vladimir Gardin, film director and actor (b. 1877)
• June 21 — Piotr Buchkin, painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher (b. 1886)
• July 16 — Nikoloz Berdzenishvili, historian (b. 1895)
• August 27
  • Sergei Kurashov, 9th Minister of Health of the Soviet Union (b. 1910)
  • Alexander Todorsky, general and komkor (b. 1894)
• September 22 — Grigory Nikulin, Bolshevik revolutionary (b. 1895)
• October 14 — Saja Batyrow, 9th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (b. 1908)
• November 1 — Seyid Shushinski, khananda folk singer (b. 1889)
• November 18 — Teymur Guliyev, 1st & 3rd Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1888)
• November 23 — Oskar Sepre, Estonian communist politician (b. 1900)

See also

• 1965 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1965

References

1. Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex (2009). The first Soviet cosmonaut team their lives, legacy, and historical impact (Online-Ausg. ed.). Berlin: Springer. p. 252. ISBN   978-0387848242. Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
2. Grayzeck, Dr. Edwin J. "Voskhod 2". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. National Space Science Data Center. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
3. Zorza, Victor (2016-03-24). "Soviet volunteers may go to Vietnam - archive". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-07-18.
4. Lindy, Jacob D. (2001). Beyond invisible walls: the psychological legacy of Soviet trauma, East European therapists and their patients. New York: Brunner-Routledge. p. 192. ISBN   9781583913185.
5. Tribune, International Herald (2015-09-18). "1965: Kosygin Offers To Mediate". IHT Retrospective Blog. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
6. Bland, W. B. (1980). The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union (PDF) (1st ed.). Wembley: Selecteditions.