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1962 in the Soviet Union

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See also:
  
Other events of 1962Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Contents

Events

  • 1962 Soviet nuclear tests
  • Operation Anadyr

    • June

  • 1–2 June – Novocherkassk massacre
  • 17 June – K-3 becomes the first Soviet submarine to reach the North Pole.
  • 30 June – Aeroflot Flight 902 crashes 28 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk airport, killing all 84 on board.

    • October

  • 14–28 October – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.

    • Births

  • 4 January – Natalya Bochina, sprinter
  • 30 August – Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned former KGB and FSB colonel

    • Deaths

  • 19 September – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (b. 1900)

    • References

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