1990 in the Soviet Union

Incumbents

• President of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev
• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev
• Chairman of the Supreme Soviet – Mikhail Gorbachev, Anatoly Lukyanov
• Vice President of the Soviet Union – Gennady Yanayev
• Premier of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Ryzhkov

  Events

January

• January 12 - Baku pogrom
• January 19-20 - Black January

  March

• March 4 - 1990 Russian Supreme Soviet election
• March 11 - Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

  May

• May 4 - Declaration "On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia"
• May 6 - Bridge of Flowers
• May 9 - 1990 Moscow Victory Day Parade
• May 16 - Congress of People's Deputies of Russia is established
• May 30-31 - 1990 Vrancea earthquakes

  June

• June 1 - 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord
• June 4-6 - Osh riots
• June 7-8 - 1990 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church
• June 12 - Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
• June 19 - Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is established

  July

• Unknown date - Gazprombank was founded.
• July 14 - The 28th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is elected
• July 14 - Central Committee elected by the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• July 16 - Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine
• July 27 - Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic

  August

• August 10 - Tbilisi–Agdam bus bombing
• August 30 - The 500 Days program is established

  October

• October 11 - Declaration of State Sovereignty of Bashkortostan
• October 17 - VTB Bank was founded.
• October 24 - Soviet nuclear tests
• October 27 - Askar Akayev is elected as the 1st President of Kyrgyzstan
• October 27 - The first episode of Pole Chudes is presented

  Deaths

• May 15 — Porfiry Krylov, Soviet painter and graphic artist
• May 26 — Varlen Pen, Soviet painter
• June 1 — Natalia Tkachenko, Soviet painter
• June 22 — Marat Podoksin, Soviet painter
• July 4 — Pavel Utkin, Soviet painter
• August 2 — Vladilen Nikiforov, Soviet painter
• August 6 — Baqi Urmançe, Tatar-Soviet painter, sculptor, and graphic artist
• August 30 — Timofey Ksenofontov, Soviet painter
• October 24 — Boris Maluev, Soviet painter and graphic artist
• November 7 — Stepan Privedentsev, Soviet painter