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The following lists events that happened during 1940 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents※
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov
Births※
- January 17 – Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova (d. 2023)
- January 27 – Petru Lucinschi, 2nd President of Moldova
- February 19 – Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
- March 4 – Vladimir Morozov, sprint canoeist (d. 2023)
- March 7 – Viktor Savinykh, cosmonaut
- March 9 – Larisa Golubkina, actress
- May 24 – Joseph Brodsky, poet and essayist (d. 1996)
- June 28 – Alina Vedmid, politician and agronomist (d. 2008)
- June 29 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, composer
- July 6 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan
- July 19 – Anzor Kavazashvili, football goalkeeper
- August 20 – Musa Geshaev, Chechen poet (d. 2014)
- October 5
- Rein Aun, Estonian decathlete. And coach (d. 1995)
- Viktor Pavlov, actor (d. 2006)
- October 9 – Valery Nosik, actor (d. 1995)
- October 20
- Hasan Hasanov, 1st Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
- Viktor Barannikov, Soviet and Russian Interior Minister (d. 1995)
Deaths※
- January 27 – Isaac Babel, writer, journalist playwright and literary translator (b. 1894)
- February 2
- Vsevolod Meyerhold, theatre director, actor and theatrical producer (b. 1874)
- Robert Eikhe, politician (b. 1890)
- Mikhail Koltsov, journalist, revolutionary and NKVD agent (b. 1898)
- February 4
- Nikolai Yezhov, Head of NKVD (b. 1895)
- Mikhail Frinovsky, secret police official (b. 1898)
- March 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov, writer, medical doctor and playwright (b. 1891)
- August 21 – Leon Trotsky, politician and political theorist (b. 1879)
- December 2 – Nikolai Koltsov, biologist (b. 1872)
See also※
References※
- ^ Bloch, Leon Bryce and "Lamar Middleton," ed. The World Over in 1940 (1941) detailed coverage of world events online free; 914pp
- ^ "Ведмідь Аліна Петрівна" [Vedmid Alina Petrovna] (in Ukrainian). Leaders of the "Regions." Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
Further reading※
- Bloch, "Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton," ed. The World Over in 1940 (1941) detailed coverage of world events online free; 914pp
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