1950 in the Soviet Union

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← 1949 1948 1947 1950 in the Soviet Union → 1951 1952 1953
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1950 History of the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents[]

• 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[]

• 5 January – 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster

February[]

• 14 February – The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.

March[]

• 12 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1950

April[]

• 2 April – Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.

June[]

• 28 June – 4 July – The Pavlovian session is held.

August[]

• 13 August – The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.

Births[]

• 12 May – Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Narcotics Control Service
• 11 August – Gennadiy Nikonov, weapons designer
• 1 September – Mikhail Fradkov, politician
• 11 December – Alexander Tatarsky, film director

Deaths[]

• 8 April – Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (born 1889)

See also[]

• 1950 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1950

References[]