1964 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1964 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

Events

October

October 12 — Voskhod 1 is the first space flight to carry more than one crewmen into orbit, and the first space flight without the use of spacesuits.
October 14-15 — Khrushchev ousted from government by Leonid Brezhnev, Replaced as First Secretary by Brezhnev and as Chairman of the Council by Alexei Kosygin
October 10-24 — Soviet Athletes compete in 1964 Summer Olympics, Placing second place behind the United States with 96 medals

Births

January 1 — Aleksandr Lapin, Russian army officer and commander of the Leningrad Military District
January 4 — Alexandre Fadeev, figure skater
February 4 — Vyacheslav Volodin, 5th Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
February 9 — Vladislav Vetrov, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, director and writer
February 16 — Valentina Yegorova, Russian long-distance runner
February 28 — Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistani road racing cyclist
March 7 — Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakh cross-country skier
March 25 — Dmitry Selivanov, Siberian rock singer
April 3 — Yelena Ruzina, Russian Olympic athlete
April 13 — Dokka Umarov, Chechen mujahid and Emir of the Caucasus Emirate
April 17 — Tahmasib Ajdarov, Azerbaijani scientist and Doctor of Economics
April 21 — Ludmila Engquist, Russian-Swedish athlete
May 19 — Gitanas Nauseda, 9th President of Lithuania
June 13 — Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
June 20 — Ethella Chupryk, Ukrainian pianist
July 3 — Aleksei Serebryakov, Russian stage actor
August 1 — Natalya Shikolenko, Belarusian javelin thrower
August 24 — Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut and astronaut
August 25 — Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
September 3 — Ricochet, Russian singer-songwriter
September 10 — Yegor Letov, singer
September 14 — Akylbek Japarov, 2nd Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan
October 2 — Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler
October 22 — Zurab Nogaideli, 5th Prime Minister of Georgia
November 28 — Giorgi Bagaturov, Georgian-Armernian chess grandmaster
December 15 — Kubatbek Boronov, 21st Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
December 19 — Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player

Deaths

January 31 — Kanysh Satbayev, academician and geologist
February 3
*Allaberdy Berdyev, 2nd Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR
*Ivan Zarubin, linguist specializing in the Pamir languages
April 26 — Mikhail Parsegov, colonel general and military commander
May 17 — Otto Kuusinen, 1st Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR
June 16 — Lidia Klement, singer
June 20 — Vasily Kuznetsov, general
June 28 — Ilya Smirnov, army general
June 30 — Alexander Bubnov, avant-garde painter and Socialist realist
July 4 — Samuil Marshak, writer
July 13 — Mikhail Nazvanov, stage and film actor
July 22 — Leonid Baratov, opera director
August 12 — Dmitry Maksutov, optical engineer and inventor of the Maksutov telescope
August 22 — Symeon Lukach, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop and martyr
August 27 — Aleksey Zhivotov, composer
August 30 — Aleksei Grechkin, army commander
September 14 — Vasily Grossman, writer and journalist
September 28 — Mikhail Svetlov, poet
October 19
*Sergey Biryuzov, 5th Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces
*Nikolay Shkodunovich, lieutenant general
*Vladimir Zhdanov, colonel-general
October 25 — Terenty Shtykov, general and 1st Ambassador of the Soviet Union to North Korea
October 29 — Vasily Agapkin, conductor, composer, and author of the march "Farewell of Slavianka"
November 16 — Nikolai Vedeneyev, lieutenant general
December 7 — Nikolay Anichkov, pathologist
December 24 — Kuksha of Odessa, Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest
December 29 — Vladimir Favorsky, artist and engraver