1945 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1945 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 — Mikhail Kalinin
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin

Events

January 12 — WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army.
January 13 — WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces in East Prussia.
January 17 — WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.
May 2 — WWII: The Soviet Union captures and occupies Berlin, Germany.
May 9 — Joseph Stalin declares victory over Nazi Germany during a speech broadcast on radio.
June 24 — Moscow Victory Parade
August 9 — WWII: The Soviet Union declared war on Japan shortly after the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Births

January 3 — Yaroslav Lesiv, Ukrainian poet and priest
January 9 — Levon Ter-Petrosyan, 1st President of Armenia
February 10 — Vladimir Shumeyko, 1st Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia
February 28 — Alexey Ekimov, Russian solid state physicist
March 13 — Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
March 22 — Givi Gumbaridze, 15th First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party
March 26 — Mikhail Voronin, Soviet and Russian gymnast
March 28 — Raine Loo, Estonian actress
March 31 — Lidiya Belozyorova, Ukrainian actress
May 6 — Besarion Gugushvili, 1st Prime Minister of Georgia
May 14 — Vladislav Ardzinba, 1st President of Abkhazia
May 20 — Aleksandr Belyakov, 1st Governor of Leningrad Oblast
May 22 — Joseph Alliluyev, Russian cardiologist and grandson of Joseph Stalin
June 11 — Valery Chaptynov, 1st Head of the Altai Republic
June 19 — Natalya Seleznyova, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress
July 19 — Oleg Fotin, Russian swimmer
August 4 — Gennady Burbulis, Russian politician
August 9 — Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player
August 14 — Valeriy Shmarov, 3rd Minister of Defence of Ukraine
August 29 — Alyosha Abrahamyan, Armenian footballer
September 23 — Igor Ivanov, 3rd Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
September 29 — Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian athlete
October 3 — Viktor Saneyev, Georgian triple jumper, Olympic champion
November 5 — Nikolai Tanayev, 8th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
November 11 — Gennady Savelyev, 2nd Head of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
November 13 — Vladislav Achalov, Soviet and Russian general, politician and public figure
December 10 — Yury Yevdokimov, 2nd Governor of Murmansk Oblast
December 21 — Mari Lill, Estonian actress
December 24 — Avtandil Margiani, 16th First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party

Deaths

January 6 — Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist and geochemist
February 18 — Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general
February 23 — Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, writer
March 3 — Aleksandra Samusenko, WWII tank commander
March 26 — Boris Shaposhnikov, military leader
May 7 — Vladimir Boyarsky, army officer
May 10 — Aleksandr Shcherbakov, 15th First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
May 25 — Demyan Bedny, poet
June 16 — Nikolai Berzarin, Red Army general
June 30 — Gabriel El-Registan, poet
July 12 — Boris Galerkin, mathematician
October 20 — Varvara Massalitinova, stage and film actress