1964 in the Soviet Union explained

The following lists events that happened during 1964 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:

Nikita Khrushchev (Until October 14)

Leonid Brezhnev (Starting October 14)

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

Leonid Brezhnev (Until July 15)

Anastas Mikoyan (Starting July 15)

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union:

Nikita Khrushchev (Until October 15)

Alexei Kosygin (Starting October 15)

Events

October

October 12 — Voskhod 1 is the first space flight to carry more than one crewmen into orbit, and the first space flight without the use of spacesuits.^[1]
October 14-15 — Khrushchev ousted from government by Leonid Brezhnev, Replaced as First Secretary by Brezhnev and as Chairman of the Council by Alexei Kosygin
October 10-24 — Soviet Athletes compete in 1964 Summer Olympics, Placing second place behind the United States with 96 medals (30 Gold, 31 Silver, 35 Bronze)^[2]

Births

January 1 — Aleksandr Lapin, Russian army officer and commander of the Leningrad Military District
January 4 — Alexandre Fadeev, figure skater
February 4 — Vyacheslav Volodin, 5th Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
February 9 — Vladislav Vetrov, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, director and writer
February 16 — Valentina Yegorova, Russian long-distance runner
February 28 — Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistani road racing cyclist
March 7 — Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakh cross-country skier
March 25 — Dmitry Selivanov, Siberian rock singer (d. 1989)
April 3 — Yelena Ruzina, Russian Olympic athlete
April 13 — Dokka Umarov, Chechen mujahid and Emir of the Caucasus Emirate (d. 2013)
April 17 — Tahmasib Ajdarov, Azerbaijani scientist and Doctor of Economics
April 21 — Ludmila Engquist, Russian-Swedish athlete
May 19 — Gitanas Nauseda, 9th President of Lithuania
June 13 — Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
June 20 — Ethella Chupryk, Ukrainian pianist (d. 2019)
July 3 — Aleksei Serebryakov, Russian stage actor
August 1 — Natalya Shikolenko, Belarusian javelin thrower
August 24 — Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut and astronaut
August 25 — Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
September 3 — Ricochet, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
September 10 — Yegor Letov, singer (d. 2008)
September 14 — Akylbek Japarov, 2nd Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan
October 2 — Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler
October 22 — Zurab Nogaideli, 5th Prime Minister of Georgia
November 28 — Giorgi Bagaturov, Georgian-Armernian chess grandmaster
December 15 — Kubatbek Boronov, 21st Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
December 19 — Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player

Deaths

January 31 — Kanysh Satbayev, academician and geologist (b. 1899)
February 3
- Allaberdy Berdyev, 2nd Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR (b. 1904)
- Ivan Zarubin, linguist specializing in the Pamir languages (b. 1887)
May 17 — Otto Kuusinen, 1st Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (b. 1881)
June 16 — Lidia Klement, singer (b. 1937)
June 30 — Alexander Bubnov, avant-garde painter and Socialist realist (b. 1908)
July 4 — Samuil Marshak, writer (b. 1887)
July 13 — Mikhail Nazvanov, stage and film actor (b. 1914)
July 22 — Leonid Baratov, opera director (b. 1895)
August 12 — Dmitry Maksutov, optical engineer and inventor of the Maksutov telescope (b. 1896)
August 22 — Symeon Lukach, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop and martyr (b. 1893)
August 27 — Aleksey Zhivotov, composer (b. 1904)
August 30 — Aleksei Grechkin, army commander (b. 1893)
September 14 — Vasily Grossman, writer and journalist (b. 1905)
September 28 — Mikhail Svetlov, poet (b. 1903)
October 19
- Sergey Biryuzov, 5th Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (b. 1904)
- Nikolay Shkodunovich, lieutenant general (b. 1900)
- Vladimir Zhdanov, colonel-general (b. 1902)
October 25 — Terenty Shtykov, general (b. 1907)
October 29 — Vasily Agapkin, conductor, composer, and author of the march "Farewell of Slavianka" (b. 1884)^[3]
December 7 — Nikolay Anichkov, pathologist (b. 1885)
December 24 — Kuksha of Odessa, Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest (b. 1875)
December 29 — Vladimir Favorsky, artist and engraver (b. 1886)

Notes and References

Web site: NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details . 2024-08-08 . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Web site: 2010-02-18 . Soviet Union at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . 2024-08-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100218144226/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1964/ . 2010-02-18 .
Web site: Василий Агапкин и его марш «Прощание славянки». Литературный журнал Москва. . 2024-08-08 . moskvam.ru . ru.