1945 in the Soviet Union

Events

Moscow Victory Parade of 1945, June 24.

January 12 — WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army.^[1]
January 13 — WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces in East Prussia.
January 17 — WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.
May 2 — WWII: The Soviet Union captures and occupies Berlin, Germany.
May 9 — Joseph Stalin declares victory over Nazi Germany during a speech broadcast on radio.
June 24 — Moscow Victory Parade
August 9 — WWII: The Soviet Union declared war on Japan shortly after the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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January 3 — Yaroslav Lesiv, Ukrainian poet and priest (d. 1991)
January 9 — Levon Ter-Petrosyan, 1st President of Armenia
February 10 — Vladimir Shumeyko, 1st Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia
February 28 — Alexey Ekimov, Russian solid state physicist
March 13 — Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
March 22 — Givi Gumbaridze, 15th First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party
March 26 — Mikhail Voronin, Soviet and Russian gymnast (d. 2004)
March 28 — Raine Loo, Estonian actress (d. 2020)
March 31 — Lidiya Belozyorova, Ukrainian actress (d. 2022)
May 6 — Besarion Gugushvili, 1st Prime Minister of Georgia
May 14 — Vladislav Ardzinba, 1st President of Abkhazia (d. 2010)
May 20 — Aleksandr Belyakov, 1st Governor of Leningrad Oblast
May 22 — Joseph Alliluyev, Russian cardiologist and grandson of Joseph Stalin (d. 2008)
June 11 — Valery Chaptynov, 1st Head of the Altai Republic (d. 1997)
June 19 — Natalya Seleznyova, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress
July 19 — Oleg Fotin, Russian swimmer
August 4 — Gennady Burbulis, Russian politician (d. 2022)
August 9 — Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player (d. 2004)
August 14 — Valeriy Shmarov, 3rd Minister of Defence of Ukraine (d. 2018)
August 29 — Alyosha Abrahamyan, Armenian footballer (d. 2018)
September 23 — Igor Ivanov, 3rd Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
September 29 — Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian athlete
October 3 — Viktor Saneyev, Georgian triple jumper, Olympic champion (d. 2022)
November 5 — Nikolai Tanayev, 8th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (d. 2020)
November 11 — Gennady Savelyev, 2nd Head of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
November 13 — Vladislav Achalov, Soviet and Russian general, politician and public figure (d. 2011)
December 10 — Yury Yevdokimov, 2nd Governor of Murmansk Oblast
December 21 — Mari Lill, Estonian actress
December 24 — Avtandil Margiani, 16th First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party

January 6 — Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist and geochemist (b. 1863)
February 18 — Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general (b. 1907)
February 23 — Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, writer (b. 1883)
March 3 — Aleksandra Samusenko, WWII tank commander (b. 1922)
March 26 — Boris Shaposhnikov, military leader (b. 1882)
May 7 — Vladimir Boyarsky, army officer (b. 1901)
May 10 — Aleksandr Shcherbakov, 15th First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1901)
May 25 — Demyan Bedny, poet (b. 1883)
June 16 — Nikolai Berzarin, Red Army general (b. 1904)
June 30 — Gabriel El-Registan, poet (b. 1899)
July 12 — Boris Galerkin, mathematician (b. 1871)
October 20 — Varvara Massalitinova, stage and film actress (b. 1878)

1945 in the Soviet Union

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