1950 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

← 1949 1948 1947 1950 in the Soviet Union → 1951 1952 1953
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

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 – Nikolay Shvernik
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin

Events

January

• 5 January – 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster

February

• 14 February – The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.

March

• 12 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1950

April

• 2 April – Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.

June

• 28 June – 4 July – The Pavlovian session is held.

August

• 13 August – The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.

Births

• 12 May – Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Narcotics Control Service
• 11 August – Gennadiy Nikonov, weapons designer
• 1 September – Mikhail Fradkov, politician
• 11 December – Alexander Tatarsky, film director

Deaths

• 8 April – Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (born 1889)
• 1 October
• – Nikolai Voznesensky, Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1903)
• – Alexey Kuznetsov, Senior Secretary of Cadres of the CPSU (born 1905)
• – Mikhail Rodionov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (born 1907)

See also

• 1950 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1950