The following lists events that happened during 1949 in the

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Incumbents

* General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union –

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union The Constitution of the Soviet Union recognised the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the earlier Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Congress of Soviets as the highest organs of state authority in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic ...

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Nikolay Shvernik Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik (russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Шве́рник, – 24 December 1970) was a Soviet politician who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 19 March 1946 until 15 March 1 ...

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union was the head of the government of the Soviet Union during the existence of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991. Powers The appointment of the Chairman of th ...

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Events

January

* 25 January – The

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (, ; English abbreviation COMECON, CMEA, CEMA, or CAME) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along wit ...

(CMEA or COMECON) is established by the Soviet Union and other communist nations. * c. 29 January – Stalin and antisemitism: The Soviet media resume a savage propaganda campaign against "

rootless cosmopolitan Rootless cosmopolitan () was a pejorative Soviet epithet which referred mostly to Jewish intellectuals as an accusation of their lack of allegiance to the Soviet Union, especially during the antisemitic campaign of 1948–1953. This campaign ...

s", a euphemism for

Soviet Jews The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the eastern half of the European continent already before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. "For ...

, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist

March

* 25–28 March –

Operation Priboi Operation Priboi (russian: Операция «Прибой» – "Operation 'Coastal Surf) was the code name for the Population transfer in the Soviet Union, Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. The action is also ...

May

* 12 May – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the

Berlin Blockade The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, ro ...

July

* 10 July – 1949 Khait earthquake

August

* 29 August – The atomic bomb

RDS-1 The RDS-1 (russian: РДС-1), also known as Izdeliye 501 (device 501) and First Lightning (), was the nuclear bomb used in the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test. The United States assigned it the code-name Joe-1, in reference to Joseph ...

is exploded in the first Soviet nuclear test

September

* 13 September – The Soviet Union vetoes

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membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal

October

* 2 October – The Soviet Union recognizes the

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, proclaimed on the previous day

November

* 7 November – Oil is discovered beneath the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia ...

, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

December

* 25–31 December –

Khabarovsk War Crime Trials The Khabarovsk war crimes trials were the Soviet hearings of twelve Japanese Kwantung Army officers and medical staff charged with the manufacture and use of biological weapons, and human experimentation, during World War II. The war crimes tri ...

Births

* 29 January –

Evgeny Lovchev Evgeny Serafimovich Lovchev (russian: Евгений Серафимович Ловчев; born 29 January 1949) is a Russian sports journalist, a former footballer, football and futsal manager. Honours * Soviet Top League winner: 1969. * Soviet ...

, footballer * 25 February – Viktor Klimenko, Olympic gymnast * 26 February –

Viktor Ulyanich Viktor Ulyanich (February 26, 1949 – November 27, 2014) was a Soviet boxer who was European champion in 1973, finalist of the European Championship in 1975, championship finalist of the USSR in 1979 and winner of the USSR championships (1974, 1 ...

, boxer * 17 March –

Pavel Palazhchenko Pavel Palazhchenko ''or'' Palazchenko (russian: Па́вел Русла́нович Пала́жченко, born 17 March 1949) is a former high-level Soviet conference interpreter who was the chief English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and S ...

, interpreter * 12 June –

Yuri Baturin Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin (russian: Юрий Михайлович Батурин; born 12 June 1949, in Moscow), is a Russian cosmonaut and former politician. Baturin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1973, and is t ...

, cosmonaut * 3 July – Aleksandr Salnikov, basketball player * 3 August –

Valeri Vasiliev Valeri Ivanovich Vasiliev (russian: Валерий Иванович Васильев; August 3, 1949 – April 19, 2012) was a Soviet and Russian ice hockey defenceman, who competed for the USSR. An eight-time Soviet all-star, Vasiliev was capt ...

, hockey player * 18 September – Gennady Komnatov, cyclist * 23 September –

Elena Guskova Elena Yuryevna Guskova (russian: Елена Юрьевна Гускова) (born on 23 September 1949 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. Elena Guskova is one of the scholars wh ...

, historian * 2 October –

Alexander Aksinin Alexander Aksinin (2 October 1949 – 3 May 1985) was a Soviet printmaker and painter. His sophisticated etching technique, precision and perfectionist attention to details earned him the sobriquet the “ Dürer of Lviv”. Art critics hailed hi ...

, painter * 28 October –

Volodymyr Onyshchenko Volodymyr Ivanovych Onyshchenko ( uk, Володимир Іванович Онищенко; born 28 October 1949 in Stechanka, Kyiv Oblast) is a former Ukrainian footballer and a current coach. He scored two goals as Dynamo Kyiv won the ...

, footballer * 21 November ** Elena Mikhailovskaya, female draughts player ** Anatoliy Kuksov, footballer * 23 November – Viktor Poganovsky, Olympic equestrian

References

1940s in the Soviet Union Years in the Soviet Union

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