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

The following lists events that happened during1957 in theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics.

• 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 –Nikolai Bulganin

• 1957 Soviet nuclear tests
• Doctor Zhivago (novel) is published inItaly byBoris Pasternak after being rejected by Soviet censors.

• May – TheAnti-Party Group attempts to overthrowNikita Khrushchev.

• 28 July – The6th World Festival of Youth and Students is opened.^{[citation needed]}

• 26 September –Soviet submarine M-256 sinks after one of its diesel engines explodes.
• 29 September –Kyshtym disaster

• 4 October –Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, is launched.

• November – The3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition arrives inAntarctica.
• 7 November – The dogLaika becomes the first animal to orbit the Earth whenSputnik 2 is launched.

• 16 January –Andris Skele,Prime Minister of Latvia (1995-1997, 1999-2000)
• 27 February –Viktor Markin, athlete
• 14 April –Mikhail Pletnev, pianist
• 10 June –Gediminas Vagnorius,Prime Minister of Lithuania (1991-1992,1996-1999)
• 29 June –Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow,President of Turkmenistan (2006-2022)
• 24 July –Shavkat Mirziyoyev,President of Uzbekistan
• 4 October –Aleksandr Tkachyov, gymnast
• 16 October –Guntars Krasts,Prime Minister of Latvia (1997-1998)
• 28 October –Panah Huseyn,Prime Minister of Azerbaijan (1993)
• 3 December –Maxim Korobov, politician
• 8 December –Mikhail Kasyanov,Prime Minister of Russia (2000-2004)
• 28 December –Dumitru Braghis,Prime Minister of Moldova (1999-2001)

• 6 January –Amvrosy Buchma, actor (born 1891)
• 20 February –Vyacheslav Malyshev, statesman (born 1902)
• 1 March –Sergey Zhuk, hydraulic engineer (born 1892)
• 9 March –Vasily Larin, general (born 1908)
• 15 April –Yevgeny Tuchkov, state security officer (born 1892)
• 9 July –Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer (born 1877)
• 15 July –Vasily Maklakov, politician (born 1869)
• 9 November –Grigory Arutinov, First Secretary of theCommunist Party of Armenia (born 1900)

• 1957 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1957

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