1966 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1966 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982)[1]
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin (1964–1980)
Events
February
- February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.[2]
- February 10 – Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel[3] and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings.
- February 20 – While Soviet author and translator Valery Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship.[4]: 140
March
- March 1 - Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.[5]
- March 29 – The 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held: Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.[6]
- March 31 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.[7]
April
- April 8 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union, as well as Leader of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.
- April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union).[8]
May
- May 4 - Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union.
July
- July 16 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about the Vietnam War (the Soviet government rejects his ideas).
October
- October 7 – The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.[9]
- October 11 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
Births
- 15 August – Marat Minibayev, former Russian professional footballer
See also
References
- ^ Chubarov, Alexander (2003). Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and post-Soviet Eras. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 60. ISBN 978-0826413505.
- ^ Siddiqi, Asif A. (2018). Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 (PDF). The NASA history series (second ed.). Washington, D.C.: NASA History Program Office. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9781626830424. LCCN 2017059404. SP2018-4041.
- ^ "Soviet dissident Yuli Daniel; imprisoned for publishing abroad". The Los Angeles Times. 1 January 1989.
- ^ Voren, Robert van (2010). Cold War in psychiatry: human factors, secret actors. Amsterdam—New York: Rodopi. p. 140. ISBN 90-420-3046-1.
- ^ Harvey, Brian (2007). Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects. Springer-Praxis. pp. 94–97. ISBN 9780387463438.
- ^ Christian F. Ostermann (2008). Inside China's Cold War. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. p. 370.
- ^ Siddiqi, Asif A. (2018). Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 (PDF). The NASA history series (second ed.). Washington, D.C.: NASA History Program Office. p. 1. ISBN 9781626830424. LCCN 2017059404. SP2018-4041.
- ^ O'Sullivan, John (2009). The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World. Regnery Publishing. pp. 94–5. ISBN 978-1-59698-016-7.
- ^ "Search IHT Retrospective SEARCH IN OUR PAGES 1966: Russia Expels Chinese". The New York Times. International Herald Tribune. October 7, 1966. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
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