1962 in the Soviet Union

• 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

• 1962 Soviet nuclear tests
• Operation Anadyr

• 1–2 June – Novocherkassk massacre
• 17 June – K-3 becomes the first Soviet submarine to reach the North Pole. {{Cite web|title = The Triumph and Tragedy of the Leninskiy Komsomol|url = http://rusnavy.com/history/events/lenkom.htm|website = rusnavy.com|access-date = 2015-04-30}}
• 30 June – Aeroflot Flight 902 crashes 28 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk airport, killing all 84 on board. {{cite web|title=Criminal occurrence description|url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19620630-2|website=Aircraft Safety Network|publisher=Flight Safety Foundation|access-date=30 April 2015}}

• 14–28 October – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.

• 4 January – Natalya Bochina, sprinter
• 17 January – Igor Surovikin, Russian professional football coach and former player
• 6 April – Natalie Holland, Russian-born contemporary artist{{cite encyclopedia |title=Natalie Holland |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |year=2007 |url=http://snl.no/Natalie_Holland |language=Norwegian}}
• 30 August – Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned former KGB and FSB colonel

• 6 January – Marziyya Davudova, Soviet actress (b. 1901)
• 19 March – Vasily Stalin, Soviet general and son of Joseph Stalin (b. 1921)
• 19 September – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (b. 1900)

• 1962 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1962

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