1970 in the Soviet Union

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Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev ^[1]
• Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin ^[2]
• Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov

Events

• May 24 – The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins. ^[3]
• June 1 – The two-man spacecraft Soyuz 9 is launched. ^[4]
• June 15 – Operation Wedding: Fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane. ^[5]
• October 6 – French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
• October 8 – Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ^[6]
• October 15 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
• October 20 – The Zond 8 lunar probe is launched.
• November 9 – Luna 17 is launched.
• November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings. ^[7]

Births

• January 2 – Oksana Omelianchik, artistic gymnast
• January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator
• March 16 – Oleg Pavlov, writer (died 2018)
• June 11 – Dmitry Utkin, army officer (died 2023)
• July 3 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian racing cyclist
• July 13 – Igor Kirillov, army general and war criminal (died 2024)
• August 26 – Olimpiada Ivanova, race walker ^[8]

Deaths

• January 10 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (peritonitis; born 1925) ^[9]
• June 11 (in the United States) – Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary and politician (born 1881) ^[10]

References

1. Chubarov, Alexander (2003). Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and post-Soviet Eras. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 60. ISBN   978-0826413505.
2. Thomas A. Baylis (1989). Governing by committee: collegial leadership in advanced societies. State University of New York Press. p. 98. ISBN   9780887069444.
3. Королев, Владимир. "Подземное неземное". nplus1.ru. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
4. "Trajectory: Soyuz 9 1970-041A". NASA. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
5. Beckerman, Gal (2010). When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry . Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pages 194–195.
6. Scammell, Michael (11 December 2018). "The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-01-01.
7. "Report Prophet of Russ Doom Sentenced to 3 Years Labor", Chicago Tribune, November 13, 1970, p4
8. "Olimpiada Ivanova". worldathletics.org.
9. "Pavel Belyayev, Astronaut, Dead". The New York Times. 1970-01-11. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-01-15.
10. "Alexander Kerensky Dies Here at 89". New York Times.

See also

• 1970 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1971