1957 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 – Nikolai Bulganin

  Events

• 1957 Soviet nuclear tests
• Doctor Zhivago is published in Italy by Boris Pasternak after being rejected by Soviet censors.

  May

• May – The Anti-Party Group attempts to overthrow Nikita Khrushchev.

  July

• 28 July – The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students is opened.

  September

• 26 September – Soviet submarine M-256 sinks after one of its diesel engines explodes.
• 29 September – Kyshtym disaster

  October

• 4 October – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, is launched.

  November

• November – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition arrives in Antarctica.
• 7 November – The dog Laika becomes the first animal to orbit the Earth when Sputnik 2 is launched.

  Births

• 27 February – Viktor Markin, athlete
• 14 April – Mikhail Pletnev, pianist
• 4 October – Aleksandr Tkachyov, gymnast
• 3 December – Maxim Korobov, politician

  Deaths

• 15 July – Vasily Maklakov, politician