1941 in Russia

Incumbents

Events

• April – The Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula is discovered by Tatyana Ustinova.
• June 22– Operation Barbarossa, German troops invade the Soviet Union along a broad front
• September 12 – World War II: The first snowfalls of the winter of 1941–1942 is reported on the Russian front.
• September 29 – World War II: The Moscow Conference; U.S. representative Averell Harriman and British representative Lord Beaverbrook meet with Soviet foreign minister Molotov to arrange assistance for Russia.
• September 29–September 30 – The Holocaust: Babi Yar massacre – German troops assisted by Ukrainian police and local collaborators kill 33,771 Jews.
• October 16 – World War II: The Soviet government moves to Kuibyshev but Stalin remains in the capital of Moscow.

  Births

• August 16 - Andrei Mironov, actor
• May 25 - Oleg Dahl, actor
• June 1 - Alexander Zakharov, physicist and astronomer,
• June 10 - Aida Vedishcheva, singer
• June 20 - Albert Shesternyov, soccer player and coach

  Deaths

• October 25 - Arkady Gaidar