1954 in the Soviet Union

Incumbents

• First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Georgy Malenkov

  Events

January

• 25 January-18 February – Berlin Conference

  February

• 19 February – 1954 transfer of Crimea

  March

• 14 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1954

  May

• 16 May-26 June – Kengir uprising

  June

• 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.
• 26 June – The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned.

  September

• 14 September – The Totskoye nuclear exercise is held.

  Births

• 23 February – Viktor Yushchenko, third President of Ukraine
• 4 March – Irina Ratushinskaya, writer
• 16 June – Sergey Kuryokhin, composer
• 17 August – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, writer
• 30 August – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus

  Deaths

• 12 February – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker
• 22 November – Andrey Vyshinsky, diplomat