1954 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1954 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

← 1953 1952 1951 1954 in the Soviet Union → 1955 1956 1957
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

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 – Kliment Voroshilov
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Georgy Malenkov

Events

January

• 25 January-18 February – Berlin Conference (1954)

February

• 19 February – 1954 transfer of Crimea

March

• 14 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1954

May

• 16 May-26 June – Kengir uprising

June

• 6 June – Moscow's statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, originally conceived in 1947 in recognition of the 800th anniversary of the city's foundation, is finally unveiled.^[1]
• 26 June – The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned.^[2]

September

• 14 September – The Totskoye nuclear exercise is held.

Births

• 23 February – Viktor Yushchenko, third President of Ukraine
• 4 March – Irina Ratushinskaya, writer
• 16 June – Sergey Kuryokhin, composer
• 17 August – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, writer
• 30 August – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus

Deaths

• 12 February – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (born 1896)
• 17 May – Varvara Brilliant-Lerman, plant physiologist (born 1888).^[3]
• 22 November – Andrey Vyshinsky, diplomat (born 1883)