1940 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1940 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.[1]
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Mikhail Kalinin
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union — Vyacheslav Molotov
Births
- January 11 — Andres Tarand, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
- January 17 — Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova (d. 2023)
- January 18 — Alexander Almetov, Soviet and Russian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
- January 27 — Petru Lucinschi, 2nd President of Moldova
- February 4 — Yuri Veksler, cinematographer (d. 1991)
- February 16 — Nikolai Kondratenko, 5th Governor of Krasnodar Krai (d. 2013)
- February 17 — Alexei Fridman, Soviet and Russian physicist (d. 2010)
- February 19 — Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
- March 4 — Vladimir Morozov, sprint canoeist (d. 2023)
- March 7 — Viktor Savinykh, cosmonaut
- March 8 — Viktor Kalashnikov, 1st Governor of Voronezh Oblast (d. 2023)
- March 9 — Larisa Golubkina, actress
- March 16 — Vagif Mustafazadeh, jazz pianist and composer (d. 1979)
- March 20 — Igor Ryomin, football player (d. 1991)
- May 4 — Viktor Getmanov, football player (d. 1995)
- May 9 — Inna Gulaya, theatre and cinema actress (d. 1990)
- May 15 — Svetlana Svetlichnaya, Soviet and Russian actress
- May 24 — Joseph Brodsky, poet and essayist (d. 1996)
- June 8 — Vladimir Semyonov, 2nd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
- June 20 — Lyudmila Marchenko, Soviet and Russian film actress (d. 1997)
- June 26 — Vyacheslav Ionov, Soviet and Russian sprint canoeist (d. 2012)
- June 28 — Alina Vedmid, politician and agronomist (d. 2008)[2]
- June 29 — Vyacheslav Artyomov, composer
- July 6 — Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan
- July 19 — Anzor Kavazashvili, football goalkeeper
- August 4 — Jamshed Karimov, 5th Prime Minister of Tajikistan
- August 6 — Mukhu Aliyev, 2nd Head of the Republic of Dagestan
- August 15 — Aleksandr Surikov, 3rd Governor of Altai Krai
- August 20 — Musa Geshaev, Chechen poet (d. 2014)
- August 31 — Gennady Vasilyev, Soviet and Russian film director (d. 1999)
- September 14 — Gennady Kuptsov, 1st Governor of Lipetsk Oblast
- October 5
- Rein Aun, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1995)
- Viktor Pavlov, actor (d. 2006)
- October 9 — Valery Nosik, actor (d. 1995)
- October 18 — Aleksandr Starovoitov, Soviet and Russian security services and academic officer (d. 2021)
- October 20
- Hasan Hasanov, 1st Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
- Viktor Barannikov, 10th Minister of Interior Affairs of the Soviet Union (d. 1995)
- December 22 — Doku Zavgayev, Soviet and Russian diplomat and politician
- December 24 — Saylau Serikov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kazakh SSR (d. 1991)
Deaths
- January 27 — Isaac Babel, writer, journalist playwright and literary translator (b. 1894)
- February 2
- Vsevolod Meyerhold, theatre director, actor and theatrical producer (b. 1874)
- Robert Eikhe, politician (b. 1890)
- Mikhail Koltsov, journalist, revolutionary and NKVD agent (b. 1898)
- February 4
- Nikolai Yezhov, Head of NKVD (b. 1895)
- Mikhail Frinovsky, secret police official (b. 1898)
- March 10 — Mikhail Bulgakov, writer, medical doctor and playwright (b. 1891)
- August 21 — Leon Trotsky, politician and political theorist (b. 1879)
- December 2 — Nikolai Koltsov, biologist (b. 1872)
See also
References
Further reading
- Bloch, Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton, ed. The World Over in 1940 (1941) detailed coverage of world events online free; 914pp
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