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1950 in the Soviet Union

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Other events of 1950 Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Contents

January

  • 5 January - 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster

    • February

  • 14 February - The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.

    • March

  • 12 March - Soviet Union legislative election, 1950

    • April

  • 2 April - Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.

    • June

  • 28 June-4 Juky - The Pavlovian session is held.

    • August

  • 13 August - The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.

    • Births

  • 12 May - Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Narcotics Control Service
  • 11 August - Gennadiy Nikonov, weapons designer
  • 1 September - Mikhail Fradkov, politician
  • 11 December - Alexander Tatarsky, film director

    • Deaths

  • 8 April - Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (born 1889)

    • References

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