1965 in the Soviet Union

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

List of events

The following lists events that happened during 1965 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

Anastas Mikoyan (Until 9 December 1965)

Nikolai Podgorny (Starting 9 December 1965)

February 6 — Premier Alexei Kosygin visits Hanoi as a member of a diplomatic mission to announce further military aid for North Vietnam.

March 18 — Alexei Leonov aboard the Voskhod 2 becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk, lasting 12 minutes.^[1]^[2]

April 24 — The 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations took in honor 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, seeking further recognition.^[3]

The Central Committee ratifies the 1965 Soviet Economic Reform (sometimes called the Kosygin Reform).^[4]

January 12 — Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
January 14 — Shamil Basayev, Chechen guerrilla leader (d. 2006)
January 23 — Armen Darbinyan, 7th Prime Minister of Armenia
January 26 — Natalia Yurchenko, artistic gymnast
May 15 — Gulshara Abdykhalikova, 11th State Secretary of Kazakhstan
June 1 — Larisa Lazutina, cross-country skier
June 15 — Karim Massimov, 7th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
September 14 — Dmitry Medvedev, 3rd President of Russia
September 26
- Alexei Mordashov, Russian billionaire businessman
- Petro Poroshenko, 5th President of Ukraine
October 14 — Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
October 23 — Asqar Mamin, 10th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
October 30 — Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
November 30 — Radion Gataullin, pole vaulter
December 30 — Valentina Legkostupova, pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020)

January 30 — Frol Kozlov, member of the 20th–21st and 22nd Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1908)
February 18 — Yevgeny Charushin, illustrator and author (b. 1901)
May 27 — Yevgeny Pavlovsky, zoologist and entomologist (b. 1884)
May 28 — Vladimir Gardin, film director and actor (b. 1877)
June 21 — Piotr Buchkin, painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher (b. 1886)
July 16 — Nikoloz Berdzenishvili, historian (b. 1895)
August 27 — Sergei Kurashov, 9th Minister of Health of the Soviet Union (b. 1910)
September 22 — Grigory Nikulin, Bolshevik revolutionary (b. 1895)
October 14 — Saja Batyrow, 9th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (b. 1908)
November 1 — Seyid Shushinski, khananda folk singer (b. 1889)
November 18 — Teymur Guliyev, 1st & 3rd Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1888)
November 23 — Oskar Sepre, Estonian communist politician (b. 1900)

^ Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex (2009). The first Soviet cosmonaut team their lives, legacy, and historical impact (Online-Ausg. ed.). Berlin: Springer. p. 252. ISBN 978-0387848242. Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
^ Grayzeck, Dr. Edwin J. "Voskhod 2". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. National Space Science Data Center. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
^ Lindy, Jacob D. (2001). Beyond invisible walls: the psychological legacy of Soviet trauma, East European therapists and their patients. New York: Brunner-Routledge. p. 192. ISBN 9781583913185.
^ Bland, W. B. (1980). The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union (PDF) (1st ed.). Wembley: Selecteditions.