1965 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1965 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- Anastas Mikoyan (Until 9 December 1965)
- Nikolai Podgorny (Starting 9 December 1965)
Events
February
- February 4 — Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience.
- February 6 — Premier Alexei Kosygin visits Hanoi as a member of a diplomatic mission to announce further military aid for North Vietnam.
March
- March 18 — Alexei Leonov aboard the Voskhod 2 becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk, lasting 12 minutes.[1][2]
- March 24 — Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev accuses the United States of 'pirate raids' against North Vietnam.[3]
April
- April 24 — The 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations took in honor 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, seeking further recognition.[4]
May
- May 9 — The 1965 Moscow Victory Day Parade is held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2.
September
- September 18 — Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.[5]
- The Central Committee ratifies the 1965 Soviet Economic Reform (sometimes called the Kosygin Reform).[6]
Births
- January 12 — Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
- January 14 — Shamil Basayev, Chechen guerrilla leader (d. 2006)
- January 23 — Armen Darbinyan, 7th Prime Minister of Armenia
- January 26 — Natalia Yurchenko, artistic gymnast
- May 15 — Gulshara Abdykhalikova, 11th State Secretary of Kazakhstan
- June 1 — Larisa Lazutina, cross-country skier
- June 15 — Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- September 14 — Dmitry Medvedev, 3rd President of Russia
- September 26
- Alexei Mordashov, Russian billionaire businessman
- Petro Poroshenko, 5th President of Ukraine
- October 14 — Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
- October 23 — Asqar Mamin, 10th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- October 30 — Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
- November 30 — Radion Gataullin, pole vaulter
- December 30 — Valentina Legkostupova, pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020)
