1971 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1971 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Nikolai Bulganin
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov
Events
January
- January 1 — Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna, a comic variety duet of actors, appear in the telecast 'Terem-Teremok'.
April
- April 19 — The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1.
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 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