1970 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the [Soviet Union|Union of Soviet Union|Soviet Socialist Republics].
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin
- Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov
Events
- May 24 – The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins.
- June 1 – The two-man spacecraft Soyuz 9 is launched.
- June 15 – Operation Wedding: Fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane.
- October 6 – French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
- October 8 – Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- October 15 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
- October 20 – The Zond 8 lunar probe is launched.
- November 9 – Luna 17 is launched.
- November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings.
Births
- January 2 – Oksana Omelianchik, artistic gymnast
- January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator
- March 16 – Oleg Pavlov, writer
- June 11 – Dmitry Utkin, army officer
- July 3 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian racing cyclist
- July 13 – Igor Kirillov, army general and war criminal
- August 26 – Olimpiada Ivanova, race walker
Deaths
- January 10 — Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut
- January 31 — Mikhail Mil, helicopter manufacturer
- March 31 — Semyon Timoshenko, 2nd People's Commissar for Defence
- April 1 — Polina Zhemchuzhina, politician and wife of former foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov
- April 17 — Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'
- June 11 — Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary, lawyer and politician
- June 21 — Lev Kassil, writer
- August 22 — Vladimir Propp, folklorist and scholar
- September 9 — Konon Molody, intelligence officer
- November 17 — Nikolai Lunin, admiral in the Soviet Navy
- November 19
- *Andrei Yeremenko, military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union
- *Maria Yudina, pianist
- December 8 — Abram Alikhanov, experimental physicist
- December 24 — Nikolai Shvernik, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union