1986 in the Soviet Union explained

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

• 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

• 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]

July

• 2 July – Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes in Komi ASSR, killing 54.^[3]
• 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.^[4]

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.^[5]

November

• 6 November – Koristovka train collision, 44 are dead and about 100 are injured.^[6]
• 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^[7]
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://www.hrono.ru/1986_.php. ru:События 1986 года. Hrono.ru. ru. 26 May 2013.
2. Web site: http://war.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=44. ru:Катастрофа Ан-12 в Ейске. War.airdisaster.ru. ru. 26 May 2013.
3. Web site: http://www.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=72. ru:Катастрофа Ту-134А Коми УГА в районе Сыктывкара. Airdisaster.ru. ru. 26 May 2013.
4. Web site: http://www.alphagroup.ru/group-a/map/. ru:Освобождение самолета Ту-134А. Alphagroup.ru. ru. 26 May 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20121028091322/http://www.alphagroup.ru/group-a/map/. 28 October 2012. dead.
5. Web site: http://www.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=73. ru:Катастрофа Ту-134А Северо-Кавказского УГА в а/п Курумоч (Куйбышев). Airdisaster.ru. ru. 26 May 2013.
6. Web site: http://www.traindisaster.ru/database.php?id=7. ru:Крушение на станции Користовка. Traindisaster.ru. ru. 26 May 2013.
7. Encyclopedia: Romanov. K. V.. Бура, Ольга Василівна. Bura, Olga Vasylivna. Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia. uk. 9 June 2022. 3 July 2022. 4 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220704064051/https://vue.gov.ua/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0,_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0. live.