1950 in the Soviet Union

• 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 • January 5 — 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster February • February 14 — The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded. March • March 12 — Soviet Union legislative election, 1950 April • April 2 — Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established. June • June 28 – July 4 — The Pavlovian session is held. August • August 13 — The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster. ==Births==

• January 3 — Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins (d. 2003) • January 17 — Viktor Kosykh, Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor (d. 2011) • January 21 — Leonid Kosakivsky, First elected mayor of Kyiv • February 17 — Albertas Simenas, 2nd Prime Minister of Lithuania • March 21 — Sergey Lavrov, 4th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation • April 8 — Yevgeny Savchenko, 2nd Governor of Belgorod Oblast • April 12 — Pavel Ipatov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast • April 16 — Igor Farkhutdinov, 3rd Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (d. 2003) • April 20 — Alexander Lebed, 3rd Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (d. 2002) • April 25 — Boris Ebzeyev, 3rd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia • May 6 — Mikhail Myasnikovich, 7th Prime Minister of Belarus • May 12 — Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia • May 17 — Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Soviet and Russian dissident, writer and liberal politician (d. 2014) • May 31 • Edgar Savisaar, 1st Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Estonia (d. 2022) • Alexander Filipenko, 1st Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug • June 18 — Alexander Solovyov, 2nd Head of the Udmurt Republic (d. 2023) • June 22 — Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and diplomat (d. 2009) • June 26 — Jaak Joala, Estonian singer (d. 2010) • July 9 — Viktor Yanukovych, 4th President of Ukraine • August 11 — Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapons designer (d. 2003) • August 23 — Roza Otunbayeva, 3rd President of Kyrgyzstan • August 25 — Oleg Betin, 2nd Governor of Tambov Oblast (d. 2023) • September 1 — Mikhail Fradkov, 8th Prime Minister of Russia • October 1 — Boris Morukov, Russian physicist and astronaut (d. 2015) • October 4 — Oleg Bogomolov, 3rd Governor of Kurgan Oblast • November 9 — Dmitry Ayatskov, 2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast • November 16 — Viktor Shershunov, 2nd Governor of Kostroma Oblast (d. 2007) • December 7 — Hasanaga Sadigov, Azerbaijani ashik singer (d. 2018) • December 9 — Vladimir Pekhtin, Russian politician • December 11 — Alexander Tatarsky, Russian film director (d. 2007) • December 15 — Boris Gryzlov, 3rd Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation • December 21 — Nikolay Kiselyov, 3rd Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast • December 24 — Mustafa Batdyyev, 2nd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia ==Deaths==

• March 15 — Alexander Kobiskoy, WWII air force flying ace (b. 1920) • April 8 — Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1889) • May 20 — Peter Petrovich Troyanskii, educator and scholar (b. 1894) • June 26 — Antonina Nezhdanova, soprano (b. 1873) • July 12 — Lev Galler, admiral (b. 1883) • August 8 — Nikolai Myaskovsky, composer (b. 1881) • August 24 • Grigory Kulik, military officer (b. 1890) • Vasily Gordov, general (b. 1896) • October 1 • Nikolai Voznesensky, politician and economic planner (b. 1903) • Alexey Kuznetsov, statesman and functionary (b. 1905) • Mikhail Rodionov, 9th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1907) • October 19 — Viktor Strazhev, bibliographer, translator, poet and literary critic (b. 1879) • November 12 — Hryhoriy Lakota, Eastern Catholic bishop (b. 1883) • November 13 — Antonina Zubkova, WWII bomber pilot (b. 1920) ==See also==