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The following lists events that happened during 1965 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- Anastas Mikoyan (Until 9 December 1965)
- Nikolai Podgorny (Starting 9 December 1965)
Events
February
- February 4 — Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience.
- February 6 — Premier Alexei Kosygin visits Hanoi as a member of a diplomatic mission to announce further military aid for North Vietnam.
March
- March 18 — Alexei Leonov aboard the Voskhod 2 becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk, lasting 12 minutes.[1][2]
- March 24 — Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev accuses the United States of 'pirate raids' against North Vietnam.[3]
April
- April 24 — The 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations took in honor 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, seeking further recognition.[4]
May
- May 9 — The 1965 Moscow Victory Day Parade is held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2.
September
- September 18 — Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.[5]
- The Central Committee ratifies the 1965 Soviet Economic Reform (sometimes called the Kosygin Reform).[6]
Births
- January 12 — Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
- January 14 — Shamil Basayev, Chechen guerrilla leader (d. 2006)
- January 23 — Armen Darbinyan, 7th Prime Minister of Armenia
- January 26 — Natalia Yurchenko, artistic gymnast
- May 15 — Gulshara Abdykhalikova, 11th State Secretary of Kazakhstan
- June 1 — Larisa Lazutina, cross-country skier
- June 15 — Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- September 14 — Dmitry Medvedev, 3rd President of Russia
- September 26
- Alexei Mordashov, Russian billionaire businessman
- Petro Poroshenko, 5th President of Ukraine
- October 14 — Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
- October 23 — Asqar Mamin, 10th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- October 30 — Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
- November 30 — Radion Gataullin, pole vaulter
- December 30 — Valentina Legkostupova, pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020)
Deaths
- January 3 — Alexander Poskrebyshev, former Head of the Special Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1891)
- January 17 — Alexander Sirotkin, lieutenant general and division commander (b. 1890)
- January 30 — Frol Kozlov, member of the 20th–21st and 22nd Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1908)
- February 2 — Alexander Akimov, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
- February 18 — Yevgeny Charushin, illustrator and author (b. 1901)
- March 3 — Vincas Vitkauskas, general (b. 1890)
- March 20 — Ivan Boldin, senior Red Army general (b. 1892)
- April 9 — Anton Lopatin, lieutenant general (b. 1897)
- May 1 — Stepan Povetkin, lieutenant general (b. 1895)
- May 27 — Yevgeny Pavlovsky, zoologist and entomologist (b. 1884)
- May 28 — Vladimir Gardin, film director and actor (b. 1877)
- June 21 — Piotr Buchkin, painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher (b. 1886)
- July 16 — Nikoloz Berdzenishvili, historian (b. 1895)
- August 27
- Sergei Kurashov, 9th Minister of Health of the Soviet Union (b. 1910)
- Alexander Todorsky, general and komkor (b. 1894)
- September 22 — Grigory Nikulin, Bolshevik revolutionary (b. 1895)
- October 14 — Saja Batyrow, 9th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (b. 1908)
- November 1 — Seyid Shushinski, khananda folk singer (b. 1889)
- November 18 — Teymur Guliyev, 1st & 3rd Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1888)
- November 23 — Oskar Sepre, Estonian communist politician (b. 1900)
See also
References
- ↑ Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex (2009). The first Soviet cosmonaut team their lives, legacy, and historical impact (Online-Ausg. ed.). Berlin: Springer. p. 252. ISBN 978-0387848242. Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ↑ Grayzeck, Dr. Edwin J. "Voskhod 2". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. National Space Science Data Center. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ Zorza, Victor (2016-03-24). "Soviet volunteers may go to Vietnam - archive". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ↑ Lindy, Jacob D. (2001). Beyond invisible walls: the psychological legacy of Soviet trauma, East European therapists and their patients. New York: Brunner-Routledge. p. 192. ISBN 9781583913185.
- ↑ Tribune, International Herald (2015-09-18). "1965: Kosygin Offers To Mediate". IHT Retrospective Blog. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ↑ Bland, W. B. (1980). The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union (PDF) (1st ed.). Wembley: Selecteditions.
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