1949 in the Soviet Union

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	History of the Soviet Union; List of years in the Soviet Union;

The following lists events that happened during 1949 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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25 January – The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (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 cosmopolitans", a euphemism for Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist

13 September – The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal

2 October – The Soviet Union recognizes the People's Republic of China, proclaimed on the previous day

7 November – Oil is discovered beneath the Caspian Sea, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

Stalin's 70th Birthday

29 January – Evgeny Lovchev, footballer
25 February – Viktor Klimenko, Olympic gymnast
26 February – Viktor Ulyanich, boxer
17 March – Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter
12 June – Yuri Baturin, cosmonaut
3 July – Aleksandr Salnikov, basketball player
3 August – Valeri Vasiliev, hockey player
18 September – Gennady Komnatov, cyclist
23 September – Elena Guskova, historian
2 October – Alexander Aksinin, painter
28 October – Volodymyr Onyshchenko, footballer
21 November
- Elena Mikhailovskaya, female draughts player
- Anatoliy Kuksov, footballer
23 November – Viktor Poganovsky, Olympic equestrian

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