1951 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1951 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

Births

January 20 — Rouslan Saghabalyan, Russian writer, journalist and screenwriter
February 3 — Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
February 5 — Nikolay Merkushkin, 3rd Governor of Samara Oblast
February 11 — Vladimir Khabarov, 2nd Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
February 19 — Vakhtang Machavariani, composer and conductor
February 23 — Avtandil Jorbenadze, 4th State Minister of Georgia
February 24 — Aleksandr Nazarov, 1st Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
March 1 — Sergei Kourdakov, Soviet KGB agent, later Christian convert
March 26 — Aleksey Buldakov, Soviet and Russian movie actor
March 30 — Sergey Tereshchenko, 1st Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
April 6 — Rita Raave, Estonian stage, television and film actress
April 14 — Pyotr Mamonov, rock musician
April 15 — Vladimir Rayfikesht, 1st Governor of Altai Krai
April 21 — Aleksandr Laveykin, cosmonaut
April 30 — Mikhail Kislyuk, 1st Governor of Kemerovo Oblast
May 3 — Nikolai Yegorov, 4th Governor of Krasnodar Krai
May 23 — Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
June 4 — Sergey Mitin, 2nd Governor of Novgorod Oblast
July 9 — Māris Gailis, 12th Prime Minister of Latvia
July 11 — Nikolai Patrushev, 5th Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia
July 25 — Yury Kovalchuk, billionaire businessman and financier
August 1 — Vladimir Barabanov, 1st and 4th Governor of Bryansk Oblast
August 4 — Andris Bērziņš, 16th Prime Minister of Latvia
August 23 — Akhmad Kadyrov, 1st Head of the Chechen Republic
August 30 — Gediminas Kirkilas, 13th Prime Minister of Lithuania
September 14 — Volodymyr Melnykov, Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter and composer
September 15 — Alexander Mikhailov, 3rd Governor of Kursk Oblast
September 17 — Mārtiņš Brauns, Latvian composer
September 21 — Aslan Maskhadov, 3rd President of Ichkeria
October 4 — Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
October 15 — Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
October 21 — Dmitry Gayev, Russian civil servant
October 23 — Vyacheslav Chanov, Russian football coach and goalkeeper
October 27 — Mikhail Kozlov, Acting Governor of Altai Krai
October 29 — Alexander Karlin, 5th Governor of Altai Krai
November 15 — Alexander Bortnikov, 6th Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia
November 27 — Ivars Godmanis, 10th Prime Minister of Latvia
December 3 — Ivan Cherednik, mathematician
December 19 — Nikolay Volkov, 1st Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast
December 25 — Alexander Volkov, 1st Head of the Udmurt Republic
December 30 — Alexey Barinov, 4th Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Deaths

April 2 — Mikhail Vladimirsky, politician and revolutionary
May 1 — Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Orthodox priest
May 29 — Mikhail Borodin, revolutionary and Comintern agent
June 16 — Pyotr Pavlenko, writer, screenwriter and war correspondent
November 3 — Alexei Badayev, functionary
November 5 — Agrippina Vaganova, ballerina
December 31 — Maxim Litvinov, 2nd People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union