1954 in the Soviet Union

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The following lists events that happened during 1954 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

Events

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  • 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.{{cite book|author=Irving R. Levine|title=Travel Guide to Russia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axXUAAAAMAAJ|year=1960|publisher=Doubleday|page=117}}
  • 26 June – The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned.{{cite web|title=Nuclear Power in Russia|publisher=World Nuclear Association|url=http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf45.html|access-date=2011-12-16|date=December 2011|archive-date=2013-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213052522/http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf45.html|url-status=dead}}

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Births

Deaths

  • 12 February – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (born 1896)
  • 17 May – Varvara Brilliant-Lerman, plant physiologist (born 1888).{{cite encyclopedia|title=Varvara Alexandrovna Brilliant-Lerman|encyclopedia=Jewish Women Archive |last=Aronova|first=Elena|url=https://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/brilliant-lerman-varvara-aleksandrovna|access-date=22 November 2024}}
  • 22 November – Andrey Vyshinsky, diplomat (born 1883)

References

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See also

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