The following lists events that happened during 1961 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 - Leonid Brezhnev Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union - Nikita Khrushchev Births 30 March - Sergei Nozikov, former Russian professional footballer 1 June - Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary chief
Deaths 15 July - Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901) 4 October - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Soviet Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
Events
1 September - first of the 1961 Soviet nuclear tests 13 September - Exhibition of Leningrad artistsВыставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. 5 November - 1961 Elbarusovo school fire killed 110 students and teachers.
See also 1961 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1961
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