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
January
- 25 January – The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON) is established by the Soviet Union and other communist nations.
- c. 29 January – Stalin and antisemitism: The Soviet media resume a savage propaganda campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans", a euphemism for Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist
March
- 25–28 March – Operation Priboi
May
- 12 May – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade
July
- 10 July – 1949 Khait earthquake
August
- 29 August – The atomic bomb RDS-1 is exploded in the first Soviet nuclear test
September
- 13 September – The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal
October
- 2 October – The Soviet Union recognizes the People's Republic of China, proclaimed on the previous day
November
- 7 November – Oil is discovered beneath the Caspian Sea, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
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
See also
References
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