1956 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1956 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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 Khruschev 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 Khruschev.
- 21 November - Soviet submarine M-200 is rammed and sunk by a Soviet destroyer, killing the submarine's crew.
Births
- 19 March - Yegor Gaidar, economist
- 6 May - Vladimir Lisin, obligarch
- 10 May - Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev, journalist
Deaths
- 3 January - Alexander Gretchaninov, composer
References
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