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1956 in the Soviet Union

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1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

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Other events of 1956 Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1956 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Contents

February

  • 9 February - The report of the Pospelov Commission is presented to the presidium.
  • 14-25 February - 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • 25 February - Nikita Khruschev makes the speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.

    • March

  • March - 1956 Georgian demonstrations

    • October

  • 19 October - Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956

    • November

  • 4 November - United Nations Security Council Resolution 120 is passed.
  • 7 November - The 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition leaves Kaliningrad
  • 18 November - We will bury you is spoken by Nikita Khruschev.
  • 21 November - Soviet submarine M-200 is rammed and sunk by a Soviet destroyer, killing the submarine's crew.

    • Births

  • 19 March - Yegor Gaidar, economist
  • 6 May - Vladimir Lisin, obligarch
  • 10 May - Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev, journalist

    • Deaths

  • 3 January - Alexander Gretchaninov, composer

    • References

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