The following lists events that happened during 1954 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 – Georgy Malenkov
Events
January 25 January-18 February – Berlin Conference (1954)
February 19 February – 1954 transfer of Crimea
March 14 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1954
May 16 May-26 June – Kengir uprising
June 6 June – Moscow's statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, originally conceived in 1947 in recognition of the 800th anniversary of the city's foundation, is finally unveiled. 26 June – The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned.
September 14 September – The Totskoye nuclear exercise is held.
Births 23 February – Viktor Yushchenko, third President of Ukraine 4 March – Irina Ratushinskaya, writer 16 June – Sergey Kuryokhin, composer 17 August – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, writer 30 August – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
Deaths 12 February – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (born 1896) 17 May – Varvara Brilliant-Lerman, plant physiologist (born 1888). 22 November – Andrey Vyshinsky, diplomat (born 1883)
References
See also 1954 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1954