1981 in the Soviet Union

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Decades:	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 1981 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
• Premier of the Soviet Union: Nikolai Tikhonov
• Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union – Lev Smirnov

Events

• 1 April – Daylight saving time was implemented for the first time in the USSR ^[1]
• 28 April – The USSR national team won the World Ice Hockey Championship in Sweden ^[2]

Births

• 31 January – Yulia Nachalova, singer (d. 2019)
• 18 February – Andrei Kirilenko, basketball player
• 19 March – Maksim Arap, footballer
• 26 March – Danis Zaripov, ice hockey player
• 30 March – Sergei Mozyakin, ice hockey player
• 8 April – Nikolay Kruglov Jr., biathlete
• 12 April – Yuriy Borzakovskiy, middle-distance runner
• 17 April – Konstantin Koltsov, ice hockey player (d. 2024)
• 30 April – Peter Nalitch, singer
• 29 May – Andrey Arshavin, footballer ^[3]
• 2 June – Nikolay Davydenko, tennis player
• 7 June – Anna Kournikova, tennis player
• 26 June – Natalya Antyukh, athlete
• 6 July – Roman Shirokov, footballer
• 8 July – Anastasia Myskina, tennis player
• 30 August – Daniil Vorobyov, film and theatre actor
• 2 September – Aleksey Chadov, film actor
• 3 September – Evgeniya Brik, actress (d. 2022)
• 15 October – Marina Toybina, fashion and costume designer
• 31 October – Irina Denezhkina, writer
• 2 November – Tatiana Totmianina, pair skater
• 5 November – Ksenia Sobchak, political figure
• 30 November – Olga Krasko, actress
• 15 December – Roman Pavlyuchenko, footballer
• 16 December – Olga Medynich, theater and film actress
• 23 December – Anastasiya Makeyeva, actress and model
• 24 December – Dima Bilan, singer, songwriter

Deaths

• February 7 — Emil Spiridonov, navy officer (b. 1925)
• March 3 — Oleg Dal, actor (b. 1941)
• March 7 — Kirill Kondrashin, conductor (b. 1914)
• March 21 — Mark Donskoy (b. 1901)
• March 28 — Yuri Trifonov, leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose" (b. 1925)
• April 1 — Agniya Barto, poet and writer (b. 1901)
• April 16 — Leonid Melnykov, politician and diplomat (b. 1906)
• April 28
  • Lev Loktev, artillery designer (b. 1908)
  • Grigory Shpigel, actor (b. 1914)
• August 27 — Valeri Kharlamov, ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• November 18 — Alexey Okladnikov, archaeologist and ethnographer (b. 1908)
• November 30 — Tankho Israilov, ballet dancer (b. 1917)
• December 4 — Valentin Fyodorov, football player and coach (b. 1911)
• December 11 — Zoya Fyodorova, actress (b. 1907)
• December 15 — Mikhail Zharov, actor and director (b. 1899)

See also

List of Soviet films of 1981

1981 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

1. "Daylight Saving Time Changes 1981 in Moscow, Russia". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
2. "Team Soviet Union - Ice Hockey World Championships 1981 - Player Stats". QuantHockey. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
3. 1981 in the Soviet Union at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)