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1955 in the Soviet Union

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See also:
  
Other events of 1955Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1955 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Contents

February

  • 27 February
  • Estonian Supreme Soviet election, 1955
  • Soviet Union regional elections, 1955

    • June

  • 2 June - Belgrade declaration

    • November

  • 15 November - Władysław Gomułka initiates talks about the Repatriation of Poles (1955–59).
  • 22 November - The first Soviet hydrogen bomb, RDS-37, is tested.
  • 30 November - The 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition begins.

    • December

  • 31 December - The Pospelov Commission is set up.

    • Births

  • 22 March - Valdis Zatlers, President of Latvia
  • 16 May - Olga Korbut, Belorussian Olympic gymnast
  • 1 July - Nikolai Demidenko, pianist
  • 7 August - Vladimir Sorokin, writer
  • 7 September - Efim Zelmanov, mathematician
  • 13 October - Sergei Shepelev, ice hockey player

    • Deaths

  • 6 January - Yevgeny Tarle, historian (born 1874)
  • 30 September - Michael Chekhov, actor (born 1891)

    • References

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