1950 in the Soviet Union

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 – Nikolay Shvernik
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin

  Events

January

• 5 January – 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster

  February

• 14 February – The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.

  March

• 12 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1950

  April

• 2 April – Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.

  June

• 28 June – 4 July – The Pavlovian session is held.

  August

• 13 August – The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.

  Births

• 12 May – Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Narcotics Control Service
• 11 August – Gennadiy Nikonov, weapons designer
• 1 September – Mikhail Fradkov, politician
• 11 December – Alexander Tatarsky, film director

  Deaths

• 8 April – Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer