1971 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1971 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

January 1 — Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna, a comic variety duet of actors, appear in the telecast 'Terem-Teremok'.

January 31 —Andriy Parubiy, Ukrainian politician
February 8 — Dmitry Nelyubin, track cyclist
February 27 — Zaal Udumashvili, Georgian politician
March 31 — Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
April 3 — Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Russian actress and television presenter
April 21 — Valentin Morkov, Russian professional football coach and a former player
July 22 — Mikheil Kavelashvili, 6th President of Georgia
August 5 — Valdis Dombrovskis, 20th Prime Minister of Latvia
September 1 — Gennady Bachinsky, Russian TV and radio host
December 15 — Vasily Aleksanyan, Russian lawyer and a former Executive Vice President of Yukos oil company
December 25 — Vladislav Galkin, Russian actor

January 10 — Nadezhda Peshkova, artist
January 31 — Viktor Zhirmunsky, literary historian and linguist
April 2 — Vladimir Krinsky, artist and architect
April 12 — Igor Tamm, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 29 — Nikolai Barabashov, Ukrainian astronomer
June 18 — Vladimir Biryukov, lexicographer
June 29 — Crew of Soyuz 11
*Georgy Dobrovolsky
*Viktor Patsayev
*Vladislav Volkov
July 22 — Roman Mashkov, military intelligence officer
September 11 — Nikita Khrushchev, 3rd Leader of the Soviet Union
September 18 — Aleksandr Prokofiev, poet
September 28 — Vasily Butusov, footballer
October 17 — Sergey Kavtaradze, politician and diplomat
October 20 — Nikolai Basistiy, Soviet Navy officer
November 1 — Mikhail Romm, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue
November 15 — Rudolf Abel, intelligence officer
November 29 — Ivan Samylovsly, diplomat, politician and journalist
December 5 — Andrey Andreyev, former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
December 8 — Ernst Krenkel, Arctic explorer and radio operator
December 18 — Aleksandr Tvardovsky, poet and writer