1954 in the Soviet Union

• First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev • Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov • Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Georgy Malenkov ==Events==

January • 25 January-18 February – Berlin Conference (1954) February • 19 February – 1954 transfer of Crimea March • 14 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1954 May • 16 May-26 June – Kengir uprising June • 6 June – Moscow's statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, originally conceived in 1947 in recognition of the 800th anniversary of the city's foundation, is finally unveiled. • 26 June – The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned. September • 14 September – The Totskoye nuclear exercise is held. ==Births==

• 23 February – Viktor Yushchenko, third President of Ukraine • 4 March – Irina Ratushinskaya, writer • 16 June – Sergey Kuryokhin, composer • 17 August – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, writer • 30 August – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus ==Deaths==

• 12 February – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (born 1896) • 17 May – Varvara Brilliant-Lerman, plant physiologist (born 1888). • 22 November – Andrey Vyshinsky, diplomat (born 1883) ==References==