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1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis ...
in the
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.


Incumbents

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. was the Party leader, leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). From 1924 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, country's dissoluti ...
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Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
* Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Nikolay Shvernik *
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Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...


Events


January

*January 25 — The
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, often abbreviated as Comecon ( ) or CMEA, was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of ...
(CMEA or COMECON) is established by the Soviet Union and other communist nations. *c. January 29 — 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


March

*March 25–28 —
Operation Priboi Operation Priboi ( – Operation "Tidal Wave") was the code name for the biggest Joseph Stalin, Stalin-era Population transfer in the Soviet Union, Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. Also known as the March depo ...


May

*May 12 —
Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
: The Soviet Union lifts the
Berlin Blockade The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, roa ...


July

*July 10 — 1949 Khait earthquake


August

*August 29 — The
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RDS-1 The RDS-1 (), also known as Izdeliye 501 (device 501) and First Lightning (), was the nuclear bomb used in the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test. The United States assigned it the code-name Joe-1, in reference to Joseph Stalin. It was de ...
is exploded in the first Soviet nuclear test


September

*September 13 — The Soviet Union vetoes
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membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal


October

*October 2 — The Soviet Union recognizes the
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
, proclaimed on the previous day


November

*November 7 — Oil is discovered beneath the
Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, ...
, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic


December

*December 21 —
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
's 70th Birthday is celebrated in
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*December 25–31 — Khabarovsk War Crime Trials


Births

*January 1 — Abdumalik Abdullajanov, 3rd Prime Minister of Tajikistan *January 2 ** Gennady Novitsky, 5th
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**
Nikolai Pankin Nikolai Ivanovich Pankin (; born 2 January 1949 – 13 October 2018) was a Russian breaststroke swimmer and swimming coach.2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
) *January 3 —
Nikolai Paltsev Nikolai Ivanovich Paltsev (; 3 January 1949 – 1 December 2021) was a Russian politician. A member of United Russia, he served as mayor of Stavropol from 2008 to 2011. Biography Paltsev was born 3 January 1949 in the Petrovsky District, Stavr ...
, politician (d.
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
) *January 29 — Evgeny Lovchev, footballer *February 16 — Yevgeny Nazdratenko, 2nd Governor of Primorsky Krai *February 25 — Viktor Klimenko, Olympic gymnast *February 26 — Viktor Ulyanich, boxer (d.
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
) *March 4 — Sergei Bagapsh, 2nd President of Abkhazia (d.
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
) *March 8 —
Natalia Kuchinskaya Natalia Alexandrovna Kuchinskaya (; alternative transliteration Natal'ja Alieksandrovna Kutchinskaja), also known as Natasha Kuchinskaya (Russian: Наташа Кучинская) (born 8 March 1949) is a retired Russian Olympic gymnast. She won ...
, Olympic gymnast *March 17 — Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter *March 18 — Boris Grachevsky, film director (d.
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
) *March 19 —
Valery Leontiev Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (; born 19 March 1949) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor, whose popularity peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996.Valentina Matviyenko, 4th Chairwoman of the Federation Council of Russia *April 8 — Galust Sahakyan, 10th
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(d.
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
) *April 15 — Alla Pugacheva, singer and songwriter *April 19 — Sergey Volkov, figure skater (d.
1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
) *April 21 — Vasily Guslyannikov, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia *April 29 — Vasily Bochkaryov, 3rd Governor of Penza Oblast (d.
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
) *May 2 — Aleksandr Kozlov, 3rd Governor of Oryol Oblast (d.
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
) *May 15 — Nikolay Podgornov, 1st Governor of Vologda Oblast *May 21 — Lyubov Polishchuk, actress (d.
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
) *May 29 — Aleksandr Tsapin, 3rd Governor of Voronezh Oblast *June 12 — Yuri Baturin, cosmonaut *June 19 — Bolot Ayushiyev, 2nd Head of
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*June 20 —
Vladimir Pechyony Vladimir Petrovich Pechyony (Russian: Владимир Петрович Печёный; born 20 June 1949), is a Ukrainian-born Russian statesman, who had served as the 4th governor of Magadan Oblast from 2013 to 2018. Pechyony had also served ...
, 4th
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...
*July 3 — Aleksandr Salnikov, basketball player (d.
2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
) *July 16 — Ishenbai Kadyrbekov, 4th Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan *July 31 — Valeriu Maravschi, 1st
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(d.
2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...
) *August 1 — Kurmanbek Bakiyev, 2nd
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*August 3 — Valeri Vasiliev, hockey player (d.
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
) *August 5 — Yury Morozov, 9th Prime Minister of South Ossetia *August 6 — Nikolay Kovalyov, 3rd Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia (d.
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
) *August 11 — Vladimir Vasilyev, 5th Head of the Republic of Dagestan *August 23 — Mikhail Golovatov, intelligence officer (d.
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
) *September 16 — Kabibulla Dzhakupov, 7th Chairman of the Mäjilis of Kazakhstan *September 17 — Marat Ospanov, 1st Chairman of the Mäjilis of Kazakhstan (d.
2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
) *September 18 — Gennady Komnatov, cyclist (d.
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
) *September 23 — Elena Guskova, historian *October 2 — Alexander Aksinin, painter (d.
1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...
) *October 20 — Valeriy Borzov, athlete *October 28 — Volodymyr Onyshchenko, footballer *November 1 — Alexander Pushnitsa, sambo practitioner (d.
2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...
) *November 3 — Alexander Gradsky, singer (d.
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
) *November 4 — Abdujalil Samadov, 4th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d.
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
) *November 11 — Vladimir Polevanov, 3rd Governor of Amur Oblast *November 14 — Vladimir Torlopov, 2nd Head of the Komi Republic *November 21 ** Elena Mikhailovskaya, female draughts player (d.
1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
) ** Anatoliy Kuksov, footballer (d.
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
) *November 23 — Viktor Poganovsky, Olympic equestrian *November 29 — Vazha Lortkipanidze, 2nd State Minister of Georgia *December 11 — Boris Scherbakov, film and theater actor *December 21 — Aleksandr Kharchikov, folk singer-songwriter (d.
2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...
)


Deaths

*January 16 — Vasily Degtyaryov, firearms designer (b.
1880 Events January *January 27 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent light bulb. Edison filed for a US patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires." gr ...
) *February 20 — Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, poet and lyricist (b.
1898 Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queen ...
) *April 7 — Mikhail Denisenko, general (b.
1899 Events January * January 1 ** Spanish rule formally ends in Cuba with the cession of Spanish sovereignty to the U.S., concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (February 1899), p ...
) *May 18 — Nikolai Semashko, 1st People's Commissar of Health of the Soviet Union (b. 1874) *May 24 — Alexey Shchusev, architect (b.
1873 Events January * January 1 ** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar. ** The California Penal Code goes into effect. * January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat the Unit ...
) *May 30 — Igor Belkovich, astronomer (b.
1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...
) *October 1 — Nykyta Budka, priest of the
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(b.
1877 Events January * January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . * January 8 – Great Sioux War of 1876: Batt ...
) *October 14 — Roman Lysko, priest of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a Major archiepiscopal church, major archiepiscopal ''sui iuris'' ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine. As a particular church of the Cathol ...
(b.
1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip ...
) *October 17 — Fyodor Tolbukhin, military commander (b. 1894) *November 11 — Ignatiy Stelletsky, archaeologist, historian and researcher (b.
1878 Events January * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War: Battle of Shipka Pass IV – Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Russo-Turkish War: ...
) *December 3 — Maria Ouspenskaya, actress and acting teacher (b.
1876 Events January * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. *January 27 – The Northampton Bank robbery occurs in Massachusetts. February * Febr ...
) *December 31 — Raimond Valgre, composer and musician (b.
1913 Events January * January – Joseph Stalin travels to Vienna to research his ''Marxism and the National Question''. This means that, during this month, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito are all living in the city. * January 3 &ndash ...
)


See also

* 1949 in fine arts of the Soviet Union * List of Soviet films of 1949


References

1940s in the Soviet Union Years in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
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