1966 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1966 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

1966
in
the Soviet Union

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Events

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February

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  • February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.[2]
  • February 10 – Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel[3] and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings.
  • February 20 – While Soviet author and translator Valery Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship.[4]: 140 

March

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April

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  • April 8 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union, as well as Leader of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.
  • April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union).[8]
  • May 4 - Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union.

July

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  • July 16 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about the Vietnam War (the Soviet government rejects his ideas).

October

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  • October 7 – The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.[9]
  • October 11 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.

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References

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  1. ^ Chubarov, Alexander (2003). Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and post-Soviet Eras. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 60. ISBN 978-0826413505.
  2. ^ Siddiqi, Asif A. (2018). Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 (PDF). The NASA history series (second ed.). Washington, D.C.: NASA History Program Office. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9781626830424. LCCN 2017059404. SP2018-4041.
  3. ^ "Soviet dissident Yuli Daniel; imprisoned for publishing abroad". The Los Angeles Times. 1 January 1989.
  4. ^ Voren, Robert van (2010). Cold War in psychiatry: human factors, secret actors. Amsterdam—New York: Rodopi. p. 140. ISBN 978-90-420-3046-6.
  5. ^ Harvey, Brian (2007). Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects. Springer-Praxis. pp. 94–97. ISBN 9780387463438.
  6. ^ Christian F. Ostermann (2008). Inside China's Cold War. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. p. 370.
  7. ^ Siddiqi, Asif A. (2018). Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 (PDF). The NASA history series (second ed.). Washington, D.C.: NASA History Program Office. p. 1. ISBN 9781626830424. LCCN 2017059404. SP2018-4041.
  8. ^ O'Sullivan, John (2009). The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World. Regnery Publishing. pp. 94–5. ISBN 978-1-59698-016-7.
  9. ^ "Search IHT Retrospective SEARCH IN OUR PAGES 1966: Russia Expels Chinese". The New York Times. International Herald Tribune. October 7, 1966. Retrieved 23 March 2022.