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1956 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during
1956
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
February
9 February – The report of the
Pospelov Commission
is presented to the presidium.
14–25 February –
20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
25 February – Nikita Khrushchev makes the speech
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
at the
20th Congress of the CPSU
.
March
March –
1956 Georgian demonstrations
October
19 October
–
Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956
November
4 November –
United Nations Security Council Resolution 120
is passed.
7 November – The
2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition
leaves
Kaliningrad
18 November – "We will bury you" is spoken by Nikita Khrushchev.
21 November
–
Soviet submarine M-200
is rammed and sunk by a Soviet destroyer, killing the submarine's crew.
Births
1 March
-
Dalia Grybauskaite
, former president of Lithuania
19 March –
Yegor Gaidar
, economist
6 May –
Vladimir Lisin
, oligarch
10 May –
Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev
, journalist
7 November –
Mikhail Alperin
, jazz pianist, member of the
Moscow Art Trio
, professor at the
Norwegian Academy of Music
.
Deaths
3 January –
Alexander Gretchaninov
, composer