1950 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1950 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
- January 5 — 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster
February
- February 14 — The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.
March
- March 12 — Soviet Union legislative election, 1950
April
- April 2 — Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.
June
- June 28 – July 4 — The Pavlovian session is held.
August
- August 13 — The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.
Births
- January 3 — Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins
- January 17 — Viktor Kosykh, Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor
- January 21 — Leonid Kosakivsky, First elected mayor of Kyiv
- February 17 — Albertas Simenas, 2nd Prime Minister of Lithuania
- March 21 — Sergey Lavrov, 4th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- April 8 — Yevgeny Savchenko, 2nd Governor of Belgorod Oblast
- April 12 — Pavel Ipatov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast
- April 16 — Igor Farkhutdinov, 3rd Governor of Sakhalin Oblast
- April 20 — Alexander Lebed, 3rd Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai
- April 25 — Boris Ebzeyev, 3rd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
- May 6 — Mikhail Myasnikovich, 7th Prime Minister of Belarus
- May 12 — Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia
- May 17 — Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Soviet and Russian dissident, writer and liberal politician
- May 31
- *Edgar Savisaar, 1st Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Estonia
- *Alexander Filipenko, 1st Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
- June 18 — Alexander Solovyov, 2nd Head of the Udmurt Republic
- June 22 — Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and diplomat
- June 26 — Jaak Joala, Estonian singer
- July 9 — Viktor Yanukovych, 4th President of Ukraine
- August 11 — Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapons designer
- August 23 — Roza Otunbayeva, 3rd President of Kyrgyzstan
- August 25 — Oleg Betin, 2nd Governor of Tambov Oblast
- September 1 — Mikhail Fradkov, 8th Prime Minister of Russia
- October 1 — Boris Morukov, Russian physicist and astronaut
- October 4 — Oleg Bogomolov, 3rd Governor of Kurgan Oblast
- November 9 — Dmitry Ayatskov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast
- November 16 — Viktor Shershunov, 2nd Governor of Kostroma Oblast
- December 7 — Hasanaga Sadigov, Azerbaijani ashik singer
- December 9 — Vladimir Pekhtin, Russian politician
- December 11 — Alexander Tatarsky, Russian film director
- December 15 — Boris Gryzlov, 3rd Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
- December 21 — Nikolay Kiselyov, 3rd Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast
- December 24 — Mustafa Batdyyev, 2nd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
Deaths
- March 15 — Alexander Kobiskoy, WWII air force flying ace
- April 8 — Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer and choreographer
- May 20 — Peter Petrovich Troyanskii, educator and scholar
- June 26 — Antonina Nezhdanova, soprano
- July 12 — Lev Galler, admiral
- August 8 — Nikolai Myaskovsky, composer
- August 24
- *Grigory Kulik, military officer
- *Vasily Gordov, general
- October 1
- *Nikolai Voznesensky, politician and economic planner
- *Alexey Kuznetsov, statesman and functionary
- *Mikhail Rodionov, 9th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR
- October 19 — Viktor Strazhev, bibliographer, translator, poet and literary critic
- November 12 — Hryhoriy Lakota, Eastern Catholic bishop
- November 13 — Antonina Zubkova, WWII bomber pilot