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See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1954 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

• First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Georgy Malenkov

Events

January

• 25 January-18 February – Berlin Conference (1954)

February

• 19 February – 1954 transfer of Crimea

March

• 14 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1954

May

• 16 May-26 June – Kengir uprising

June

• 6 June – Moscow's statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, originally conceived in 1947 in recognition of the 800th anniversary of the city's foundation, is finally unveiled.
• 26 June – The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned.

September

• 14 September – The Totskoye nuclear exercise is held.

Births

• 23 February – Viktor Yushchenko, third President of Ukraine
• 4 March – Irina Ratushinskaya, writer
• 16 June – Sergey Kuryokhin, composer
• 17 August – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, writer
• 30 August – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus

Deaths

• 12 February – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (born 1896)
• 17 May – Varvara Brilliant-Lerman, plant physiologist (born 1888).
• 22 November – Andrey Vyshinsky, diplomat (born 1883)

References

1. Irving R. Levine (1960). Travel Guide to Russia. Doubleday. p. 117.
2. "Nuclear Power in Russia". World Nuclear Association. December 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
3. Aronova, Elena. "Varvara Alexandrovna Brilliant-Lerman". Jewish Women Archive. Retrieved 22 November 2024.

See also

• 1954 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1954

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