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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1956 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 – Nikolai Bulganin

Events

February

• 9 February – The report of the Pospelov Commission is presented to the presidium.
• 14–25 February – 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 25 February – Nikita Khrushchev makes the speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.

March

• March – 1956 Georgian demonstrations

October

• 19 October – Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956

November

• 4 November – United Nations Security Council Resolution 120 is passed.
• 7 November – The 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition leaves Kaliningrad
• 18 November – "We will bury you" is spoken by Nikita Khrushchev.
• 21 November – Soviet submarine M-200 is rammed and sunk by a Soviet destroyer, killing the submarine's crew.

Births

• 13 January - Vladimir Merovshchikov, Russian professional football coach and former player
• 1 March - Dalia Grybauskaite, president of Lithuania
• 19 March – Yegor Gaidar, economist (d. 2009)
• 6 May – Vladimir Lisin, oligarch
• 10 May – Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev, journalist
• 7 November – Mikhail Alperin, jazz pianist, member of the Moscow Art Trio, professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music (d. 2018).

Deaths

• 3 January – Alexander Gretchaninov, composer

See also

• 1956 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1956

References

1. "Dalia Grybauskaite | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
2. Mainville, Michael (16 December 2009). "Yegor Gaidar obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 29 July 2021.

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