1970 in the Soviet Union

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev • Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin • Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov ==Events==

• May 24 – The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins. • June 1 – The two-man spacecraft Soyuz 9 is launched. • June 15 – Operation Wedding: Fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane. • October 6 – French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union. • October 8 – Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. • October 15 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey. • October 20 – The Zond 8 lunar probe is launched. • November 9 – Luna 17 is launched. • November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings. ==Births==

• January 2 – Oksana Omelianchik, artistic gymnast • January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator • March 16 – Oleg Pavlov, writer (died 2018) • June 11 – Dmitry Utkin, army officer (died 2023) • July 3 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian racing cyclist • July 13 – Igor Kirillov, army general and war criminal (died 2024) • August 26 – Olimpiada Ivanova, race walker ==Deaths==

• January 10 — Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925) • January 31 — Mikhail Mil, helicopter manufacturer (b. 1909) • March 31 — Semyon Timoshenko, 2nd People's Commissar for Defence (b. 1895) • April 1 — Polina Zhemchuzhina, politician and wife of former foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov (b. 1897) • April 17 — Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (b. 1877) • June 11 — Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary, lawyer and politician (b. 1881) • June 21 — Lev Kassil, writer (b. 1905) • August 22 — Vladimir Propp, folklorist and scholar (b. 1895) • September 9 — Konon Molody, intelligence officer (b. 1922) • November 17 — Nikolai Lunin, admiral in the Soviet Navy (b. 1907) • November 19 • Andrei Yeremenko, military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892) • Maria Yudina, pianist (b. 1899) • December 8 — Abram Alikhanov, experimental physicist (b. 1904) • December 24 — Nikolai Shvernik, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (b. 1888) ==References==