1945 in the Soviet Union

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The following lists events that happened during 1945 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .

Incumbents

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin

Events

Moscow Victory Parade of 1945, June 24.

January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army.^[1]
January 13 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces in East Prussia.
January 17 – WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.
May 2 – WWII: The Soviet Union captures and occupies Berlin, Germany.
May 9 – Joseph Stalin declares victory over Nazi Germany during a speech broadcast on radio.
June 24 – Moscow Victory Parade
August 9 – WWII: The Soviet Union declared war on Japan shortly after the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Births

13 March – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
31 March – Lidiya Belozyorova, Ukrainian actress (d. 2022)
9 August – Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player (d. 2004)
3 October – Viktor Saneyev, Georgian triple jumper, Olympic champion (d. 2022)

Deaths

6 January – Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist and geochemist (b. 1863)
18 February – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general (b. 1907)
23 February – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, writer (b. 1883)
3 March – Aleksandra Samusenko, WWII tank commander (b. 1922)
26 March – Boris Shaposhnikov, military leader (b. 1882)
7 May – Vladimir Boyarsky, army officer (b. 1901)
10 May – Aleksandr Shcherbakov, First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1938-1945) (b. 1901)
16 June – Nikolai Berzarin, Red Army general (b. 1904)
30 June – Gabriel El-Registan, poet (b. 1899)
12 July – Boris Galerkin, mathematician (b. 1871)

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References

↑ Duffy, C. Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945 Routledge 1991 ISBN 0-415-22829-8. Page 67

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[1] Duffy, C. Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945 Routledge 1991 ISBN 0-415-22829-8. Page 67

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