1950 in the Soviet Union

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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1950 Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Events

January

• 5 January - 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster

February

• 14 February - The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.

March

• 12 March - Soviet Union legislative election, 1950

April

• 2 April - Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.

June

• 28 June-4 Juky - The Pavlovian session is held.

August

• 13 August - The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.

Births

• 12 May - Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Narcotics Control Service
• 11 August - Gennadiy Nikonov, weapons designer
• 1 September - Mikhail Fradkov, politician
• 11 December - Alexander Tatarsky, film director

Deaths

• 8 April - Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (born 1889)

References