1949 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1949 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Nikolay Shvernik
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
Events
March
- 25–28 March – Operation Priboi
July
- 10 July – 1949 Khait earthquake
August
- 29 August – The atomic bomb RDS-1 is exploded in the first Soviet nuclear test.
December
- 25–31 December – Khabarovsk War Crime Trials
Births
- 29 January – Evgeny Lovchev, footballer
- 25 February – Viktor Klimenko, Olympic gymnast
- 26 February – Viktor Ulyanich, boxer
- 17 March – Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter
- 12 June – Yuri Baturin, cosmonaut
- 3 July – Aleksandr Salnikov, basketball player
- 3 August – Valeri Vasiliev, hockey player
- 18 September – Gennady Komnatov, cyclist
- 23 September – Elena Guskova, historian
- 2 October – Alexander Aksinin, painter
- 28 October – Volodymyr Onyshchenko, footballer
- 21 November
- Elena Mikhailovskaya, female draughts player
- Anatoliy Kuksov, footballer
- 23 November – Viktor Poganovsky, Olympic equestrian