1954 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
17 May – Varvara Brilliant-Lerman, plant physiologist.
22 November – Andrey Vyshinsky, diplomat