1986 in the Soviet Union
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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
- 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
- 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 Union of Cinematographers of the USSR 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
- 8 August – 1986 FIBA World Championship for Women opens in Minsk, Vilnius and Moscow.
- 31 August – Sinking of SS Admiral Nakhimov in the Black Sea, 423 deaths.
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 – Koristovka train collision, 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
- 1 January – Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian novelist (d. 2023)
- 4 January – Andrei Krauchanka, Belarusian decathlete
- 5 January – Yana Shemyakina, Ukrainian Olympic champion in fencing
- 6 January
- Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Russian Olympic 4x100 metre relay champion
- Irina Shayk, model and television personality
- 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
- 22 July - Olha Bura, Ukrainian activist[7]
- 31 July – Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
September
- 3 September – Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
- 9 September – Katy Topuria, Georgian singer
October
- 16 October – Igor Mangushev, Russian mercenary leader (died 2023)
- 21 October – Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Chechen terrorist (died 2013)
Deaths
- 11 January – Ilya Averbakh, Soviet film director (born 1934)
- 30 January – Ivan Papanin, Soviet Polar explorer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (born 1894)
- 4 February – Jānis Kalnbērziņš, former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia (born 1893)
- 23 March – Anastasia Zuyeva, actress (born 1896)
- 7 April – Leonid Kantorovich, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
- 12 April – Valentin Kataev, Soviet writer (born 1897)
- 20 April – Aleksei Arbuzov, playwright (born 1908)
- 26 April – Valery Khodemchuk, Soviet engineer, working at Chernobyl reactor 4 (born 1951)
- 6 May – Sergei Simonov, Soviet weapons designer (born 1894)
- 11 May
- Vladimir Pravik, Soviet firefighter (born 1962)
- Aleksandr Akimov, Soviet engineer who was the shift supervisor during the events of the Chernobyl disaster (born 1953)
- 13 May – Vasily Ignatenko, Soviet firefighter who responded to the Chernobyl disaster (born 1961)
- 26 May – Vitaly Abalakov, Soviet alpinist (born 1906)
- 22 August – Vali Akhundov, First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (1959-1969) (born 1916)
- 23 August – Mikhail Kuznetsov, Soviet actor (born 1918)
- 25 September – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
- 8 November – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician and diplomat (born 1890)
- 8 December – Anatoly Marchenko, Soviet dissident and author (born 1938)
- 15 December – Serge Lifar, Soviet dancer and choreographer (born 1905)
- 29 December – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian filmmaker, writer, and film theorist (born 1932)
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e События 1986 года (in Russian). Hrono.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Катастрофа Ан-12 в Ейске (in Russian). War.airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Катастрофа Ту-134А Коми УГА в районе Сыктывкара (in Russian). Airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Освобождение самолета Ту-134А (in Russian). Alphagroup.ru. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Катастрофа Ту-134А Северо-Кавказского УГА в а/п Курумоч (Куйбышев) (in Russian). Airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Крушение на станции Користовка (in Russian). Traindisaster.ru. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ Romanov, K. V. (9 June 2022). "Бура, Ольга Василівна" [Bura, Olga Vasylivna]. Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 July 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
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