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See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during1964 in theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics.

• First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:

Nikita Khrushchev (Until October 14)

Leonid Brezhnev (Starting October 14)

• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union:

Leonid Brezhnev (Until July 15)

Anastas Mikoyan (Starting July 15)

• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union:

Nikita Khrushchev (Until October 15)

Alexei Kosygin (Starting October 15)

• October 12 —Voskhod 1 is the first space flight to carry more than onecrewmen into orbit, and the first space flight without the use of spacesuits.^[1]

• October 14-15 —Khrushchev ousted from government byLeonid Brezhnev, Replaced asFirst Secretary by Brezhnev and asChairman of the Council byAlexei Kosygin
• October 10-24 —Soviet Athletes compete in1964 Summer Olympics, Placing second place behind theUnited States with 96 medals (30 Gold, 31 Silver, 35 Bronze)^[2]

• January 1 —Aleksandr Lapin, Russian army officer and commander of theLeningrad Military District
• January 4 —Alexandre Fadeev, figure skater
• February 4 —Vyacheslav Volodin, 5thChairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
• February 9 —Vladislav Vetrov, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, director and writer
• February 16 —Valentina Yegorova, Russian long-distance runner
• February 28 —Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistani road racing cyclist
• March 7 —Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakh cross-country skier
• March 25 —Dmitry Selivanov, Siberian rock singer (d.1989)
• April 3 —Yelena Ruzina, Russian Olympic athlete
• April 13 —Dokka Umarov, Chechenmujahid andEmir of the Caucasus Emirate (d.2013)
• April 17 —Tahmasib Ajdarov, Azerbaijani scientist and Doctor of Economics
• April 21 —Ludmila Engquist, Russian-Swedish athlete
• May 19 —Gitanas Nauseda, 9thPresident of Lithuania
• June 13 —Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
• June 20 —Ethella Chupryk, Ukrainian pianist (d.2019)
• July 3 —Aleksei Serebryakov, Russian stage actor
• August 1 —Natalya Shikolenko, Belarusian javelin thrower
• August 24 —Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut and astronaut
• August 25 —Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
• September 3 —Ricochet, Russian singer-songwriter (d.2007)
• September 10 —Yegor Letov, singer (d.2008)
• September 14 —Akylbek Japarov, 2ndChairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan
• October 2 —Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler
• October 22 —Zurab Nogaideli, 5thPrime Minister of Georgia
• November 28 —Giorgi Bagaturov, Georgian-Armernian chess grandmaster
• December 15 —Kubatbek Boronov, 21stPrime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
• December 19 —Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player

• January 31 —Kanysh Satbayev, academician and geologist (b.1899)
• February 3
  • Allaberdy Berdyev, 2ndChairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR (b.1904)
  • Ivan Zarubin, linguist specializing in thePamir languages (b.1887)
• April 26 —Mikhail Parsegov, colonel general and military commander (b.1899)
• May 17 —Otto Kuusinen, 1stChairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (b.1881)
• June 16 —Lidia Klement, singer (b.1937)
• June 20 —Vasily Kuznetsov, general (b.1894)
• June 28 —Ilya Smirnov, army general (b.1887)
• June 30 —Alexander Bubnov,avant-garde painter andSocialist realist (b.1908)
• July 4 —Samuil Marshak, writer (b.1887)
• July 13 —Mikhail Nazvanov, stage and film actor (b.1914)
• July 22 —Leonid Baratov, opera director (b.1895)
• August 12 —Dmitry Maksutov, optical engineer and inventor of theMaksutov telescope (b.1896)
• August 22 —Symeon Lukach, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop and martyr (b.1893)
• August 27 —Aleksey Zhivotov, composer (b.1904)
• August 30 —Aleksei Grechkin, army commander (b.1893)
• September 14 —Vasily Grossman, writer and journalist (b.1905)
• September 28 —Mikhail Svetlov, poet (b.1903)
• October 19
  • Sergey Biryuzov, 5thChief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (b.1904)
  • Nikolay Shkodunovich, lieutenant general (b.1900)
  • Vladimir Zhdanov, colonel-general (b.1902)
• October 25 —Terenty Shtykov, general and 1stAmbassador of the Soviet Union to North Korea (b.1907)
• October 29 —Vasily Agapkin, conductor, composer, and author of themarch "Farewell of Slavianka" (b.1884)^[3]
• November 16 —Nikolai Vedeneyev, lieutenant general (b.1897)
• December 7 —Nikolay Anichkov, pathologist (b.1885)
• December 24 —Kuksha of Odessa,Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest (b.1875)
• December 29 —Vladimir Favorsky, artist and engraver (b.1886)

• 1964 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1964

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