1957 in the Soviet Union

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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1957 History of the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1957 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents[]

• 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 – Nikolai Bulganin

Events[]

• 1957 Soviet nuclear tests
• Doctor Zhivago (novel) is published in Italy by Boris Pasternak after being rejected by Soviet censors.

May[]

• May – The Anti-Party Group attempts to overthrow Nikita Khrushchev.

July[]

• 28 July – The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students is opened.^[1]

September[]

• 26 September – Soviet submarine M-256 sinks after one of its diesel engines explodes.
• 29 September – Kyshtym disaster

October[]

• 4 October – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, is launched.

November[]

• November – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition arrives in Antarctica.
• 7 November – The dog Laika becomes the first animal to orbit the Earth when Sputnik 2 is launched.

Births[]

• 27 February – Viktor Markin, athlete
• 14 April – Mikhail Pletnev, pianist
• 4 October – Aleksandr Tkachyov, gymnast
• 3 December – Maxim Korobov, politician

Deaths[]

• 9 July - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer (born 1877)
• 15 July – Vasily Maklakov, politician (born 1869)

See also[]

• 1957 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1957

References[]

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