The following lists events that happened during 1961 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 - Leonid Brezhnev
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union - Nikita Khrushchev
Births
- 30 March - Sergei Nozikov, former Russian professional footballer
- 1 June - Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary chief
Deaths
- 15 July - Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)[1]
- 4 October - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Soviet Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
Events
- 1 September - first of the 1961 Soviet nuclear tests[2]
- 13 September - Exhibition of Leningrad artists[3]
- 5 November - 1961 Elbarusovo school fire killed 110 students and teachers.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Spetich, Joan; Cameron, Douglas E. (1987). "Nina Karlovna Bari". In Grinstein, Louise S.; Campbell, Paul J. (eds.). Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-3132-4849-8.
- ^ Soviet Atomic Energy Program (PDF) (Technical report). National Intelligence Estimate 11-2A-62. Central Intelligence Agency. 16 May 1962. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ^ Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964.
- ^ "Fifty-seven years ago, 106 children died in a fire at a village school. The Soviet public didn't know about it until the 1990s". meduza.io. March 28, 2018. Retrieved 2019-06-12.