1986 in the Soviet Union

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History of the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1986 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents[]

  • General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet – Andrei Gromyko
  • Premier of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Ryzhkov
  • Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union – Vladimir Terebilov

Events[]

January[]

  • 25 January – Mikhail Gorbachev proposes a 15-year plan on abolition of nuclear weapons.[1]

February[]

Mir
  • 20 February – The first component of the Mir space station - the core module - is launched.
  • 24 February – VI Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR opens in Krasnoyarsk.
  • 25 February – The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is opened, where the concept of glasnost emerges.

March[]

  • 1 March – 1986 Soviet Top League is inaugurated.
  • 13 March
    • Soyuz T-15 is launched at the Gagarin's Start.
    • 1986 Black Sea incident: American cruiser USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Caron, claiming the right of innocent passage, enter the Soviet territorial waters near the southern Crimean Peninsula.

April[]

  • 12 April – 1986 World Ice Hockey Championships are inaugurated in Moscow.
  • 21 April - Mikhail Gorbachev announces that the Soviet Union is ready to dissolve the Warsaw Pact with the simultaneous dissolution of NATO.[1]
  • 26 April – Chernobyl disaster.

May[]

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus
  • 4 May – Rock-Panorama-86 festival opens in Moscow.
  • 12 May – The Council of Ministers of the USSR introduces the State Acceptance of Production (gospriyomka).
  • 13 May – The 5th congress of the is opened.
  • 20 May – The designing of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus starts.

June[]

  • 3 June – IX Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR opens.
  • 28 June – Antonov An-12 of the Soviet Air Forces crashes in Yeysk, killing 10.[2]

July[]

  • 2 July – Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes in Komi ASSR, killing 54.[3]
  • 5 July – 1986 Goodwill Games are inaugurated in Moscow.

August[]

September[]

  • 5 September – The Soviet leg of the World Chess Championship 1986 opens in Leningrad.
  • 20 September – Two Internal Troops servicemen make an unsuccessful attempt to hijack Tu-134A aircraft in Ufa and flee to Pakistan.[4]

October[]

  • 5 October – Scientist and human rights advocate Yuri Orlov is freed from Siberian exile.[1]
  • 20 October – Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes in Kuybyshev (now Samara), killing 70.[5]

November[]

  • 6 November – , 44 are dead and about 100 are injured.[6]
  • 14 November – The Molodezhny department store in Moscow is robbed, 3 cash-in-transit workers are killed.
  • 19 November – The law "On Individual Labor Activity" is adopted,[1] approving the use of private enterprises to manufacture some consumer goods.
  • 19 November – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union issues an Appeal to Parliaments and People of the World about global nuclear disarmament.

December[]

  • 1 December – Popular film Kin-dza-dza! is released.
  • 16 December – Jeltoqsan riots spark in Alma-Ata.
  • 19 December – Soviet authorities announce that Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner now can return to Moscow after a seven-year exile.[1]

Births[]

January[]

  • 5 January – Yana Shemyakina, Ukrainian Olympic champion in fencing
  • 6 January – Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Russian Olympic 4x100 metre relay champion
  • 15 January – Mariya Abakumova, Russian javelin thrower

March[]

  • 17 March – Olesya Rulin, Russian American actress

April[]

  • 8 April – Igor Akinfeev, Russian goalkeeper
  • 11 April – Tatiana Kosintseva, Russian chess Grandmaster
  • 27 April – Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player

May[]

  • 13 May – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer

June[]

  • 12 June – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer

July[]

  • 31 July – Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player

September[]

  • 9 September – Katy Topuria, Georgian singer

Deaths[]

January[]

  • 11 January – Ilya Averbakh, Soviet film director
  • 30 January – Ivan Papanin, Soviet Polar explorer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union

April[]

  • 12 April – Valentin Kataev, Soviet writer

May[]

  • 6 May – Sergei Simonov, Soviet weapons designer
  • 26 May – Vitaly Abalakov, Soviet alpinist

See also[]

  • 1986 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
  • List of Soviet films of 1980-91

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e События 1986 года (in Russian). Hrono.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  2. ^ Катастрофа Ан-12 в Ейске (in Russian). War.airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  3. ^ Катастрофа Ту-134А Коми УГА в районе Сыктывкара (in Russian). Airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Archived copy" Освобождение самолета Ту-134А (in Russian). Alphagroup.ru. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ Катастрофа Ту-134А Северо-Кавказского УГА в а/п Курумоч (Куйбышев) (in Russian). Airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  6. ^ Крушение на станции Користовка (in Russian). Traindisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
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