1986 in the Soviet Union

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The following lists events that happened during 1986 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet – Andrei Gromyko
• Premier of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Ryzhkov
• Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union – Vladimir Terebilov

Events

January

• 25 January – Mikhail Gorbachev proposes a 15-year plan on abolition of nuclear weapons. ^[1]

February

Mir

• 20 February – The first component of the Mir space station - the core module - is launched.
• 24 February – VI Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR opens in Krasnoyarsk.
• 25 February – The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is opened, where the concept of glasnost emerges.

March

• 1 March – 1986 Soviet Top League is inaugurated.
• 13 March
  • Soyuz T-15 is launched at the Gagarin's Start.
  • 1986 Black Sea incident: American cruiser USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Caron, claiming the right of innocent passage, enter the Soviet territorial waters near the southern Crimean Peninsula.

April

• 12 April – 1986 World Ice Hockey Championships are inaugurated in Moscow.
• 21 April - Mikhail Gorbachev announces that the Soviet Union is ready to dissolve the Warsaw Pact with the simultaneous dissolution of NATO. ^[1]
• 26 April – Chernobyl disaster.

May

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus

• 4 May – Rock-Panorama-86 festival opens in Moscow.
• 12 May – The Council of Ministers of the USSR introduces the State Acceptance of Production (gospriyomka).
• 13 May – The 5th congress of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR is opened.
• 20 May – The designing of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus starts.

June

• 3 June – IX Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR opens.
• 28 June – Antonov An-12 of the Soviet Air Forces crashes in Yeysk, killing 10. ^{[2] [ self-published source ]}

July

• 2 July – Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes in Komi ASSR, killing 54.
• 5 July – 1986 Goodwill Games are inaugurated in Moscow.

August

• 8 August – 1986 FIBA World Championship for Women opens in Minsk, Vilnius and Moscow.
• 31 August – Sinking of SS Admiral Nakhimov in the Black Sea, 423 deaths.

September

• 5 September – The Soviet leg of the World Chess Championship 1986 opens in Leningrad.
• 20 September – Two Internal Troops servicemen make an unsuccessful attempt to hijack Tu-134A aircraft in Ufa and flee to Pakistan. ^[3]

October

• 5 October – Scientist and human rights advocate Yuri Orlov is freed from Siberian exile. ^[1]
• 20 October – Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes in Kuybyshev (now Samara), killing 70.

November

• 6 November – Koristovka train collision  [ ru ], 44 are dead and about 100 are injured. ^[4]
• 14 November – The Molodezhny department store in Moscow is robbed, 3 cash-in-transit workers are killed.
• 19 November – The law "On Individual Labor Activity" is adopted, ^[1] approving the use of private enterprises to manufacture some consumer goods.
• 19 November – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union issues an Appeal to Parliaments and People of the World about global nuclear disarmament.

December

• 1 December – Popular film Kin-dza-dza! is released.
• 16 December – Jeltoqsan riots spark in Alma-Ata.
• 19 December – Soviet authorities announce that Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner now can return to Moscow after a seven-year exile. ^[1]

Births

January

• 1 January – Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian novelist (d. 2023)
• 4 January – Andrei Krauchanka, Belarusian decathlete
• 5 January – Yana Shemyakina, Ukrainian Olympic champion in fencing
• 6 January
  • Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Russian Olympic 4x100 metre relay champion
  • Irina Shayk, model and television personality
• 15 January – Mariya Abakumova, Russian javelin thrower

March

• 17 March – Olesya Rulin, Russian American actress

April

• 8 April – Igor Akinfeev, Russian goalkeeper
• 11 April – Tatiana Kosintseva, Russian chess Grandmaster
• 27 April – Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player

May

• 13 May – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer

June

• 12 June – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer

July

• 22 July - Olha Bura, Ukrainian activist ^[5]
• 31 July – Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player

September

• 3 September – Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 9 September – Katy Topuria, Georgian singer

October

• 16 October – Igor Mangushev, Russian mercenary leader (died 2023)
• 21 October – Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Chechen terrorist (died 2013)

Deaths

• January 11 – Ilya Averbakh, Soviet film director (b. 1934)
• January 30 – Ivan Papanin, Soviet Polar explorer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1894)
• February 4 – Jānis Kalnbērziņš, 1st First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia (b. 1893)
• March 23
  • Anastasia Zuyeva, actress (b. 1896)
  • Lev Smirnov, 6th Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
• April 7 – Leonid Kantorovich, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• April 12 – Valentin Kataev, Soviet writer (b. 1897)
• April 20 – Aleksei Arbuzov, playwright (b. 1908)
• April 26– Valery Khodemchuk, Soviet engineer, working at Chernobyl reactor 4 (b. 1951)
• May 6 – Sergei Simonov, Soviet weapons designer (b. 1894)
• May 11
  • Vladimir Pravik, Soviet firefighter (b. 1962)
  • Aleksandr Akimov, Soviet engineer who was the shift supervisor during the events of the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1953)
• May 13 – Vasily Ignatenko, Soviet firefighter who responded to the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1961)
• May 26 – Vitaly Abalakov, Soviet alpinist (b. 1906)
• July 7 – Ivan Zhevago, Soviet theater and film actor (b. 1912)
• August 22 – Vali Akhundov, 11th First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (b. 1916)
• August 23 – Mikhail Kuznetsov, Soviet actor (b. 1918)
• September 25 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• November 8– Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician and diplomat (b. 1890)
• December 8 – Anatoly Marchenko, Soviet dissident and author (b. 1938)
• December 15 – Serge Lifar, Soviet dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)
• December 29 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian filmmaker, writer, and film theorist (b. 1932)

See also

• 1986 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1980-91

References

1. События 1986 года (in Russian). Hrono.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
2. Катастрофа Ан-12 в Ейске (in Russian). War.airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
3. Освобождение самолета Ту-134А (in Russian). Alphagroup.ru. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
4. Крушение на станции Користовка (in Russian). Traindisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
5. Romanov, K. V. (9 June 2022). "Бура, Ольга Василівна" [Bura, Olga Vasylivna]. Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 July 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.