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The following lists events that happened during 1989 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
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Events
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Whole Year: Revolutions of 1989
Deaths
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January 3 — Sergei Sobolev, mathematician (b. 1908)
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January 10 — Valentin Glushko, engineer, program manager of the Soviet space program (b. 1908)
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January 24 — Sasha Putrya, Ukrainian artist (b. 1977)
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January 27 — Vasily Konovalenko, artist (gemstone sculptures) (b. 1929)
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February 2 — Yuri Bogatyryov, actor (b. 1947)
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February 7 — Simon Virsaladze, ballet, film and opera designer (b. 1909)
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February 20 — Aleksandr Medvedkin, film director (b. 1900)
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February 21 — Otar Taktakishvili, Georgian composer and conductor (b. 1924)
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March 3 — Vytautas Viciulis, Lithuanian painter (b. 1951)
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March 4 — Victor Nikiforov, ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1931)
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March 8 — Elisaveta Bykova, chess player and dual Women's World Chess Champion (b. 1913)
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March 26 — Maris Liepa, Latvian ballet dancer (b. 1936)
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March 29 — Aleksandr Prokopenko, football player (b. 1953)
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April 10 — Nikolai Grinko, actor (b. 1920)
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April 22 — Dmitry Selivanov, rock singer (b. 1964)
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May 2 — Veniamin Kaverin, writer and dramatist (b. 1902)
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May 4 — Lydia Pasternak Slater, research chemist and poet (b. 1902)
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May 8 — Hendrik Allik, Estonian politician (b. 1901)
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May 14 — Nikifor Kalchenko, politician (b. 1906)
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May 23 — Georgy Tovstonogov, theatre director (b. 1915)
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May 27 — Arseny Tarkovsky, poet and translator (b. 1907)
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June 9
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June 10 — Suleyman Rustam, poet, playwright and translator (b. 1906)
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June 19
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June 21 — Aleksandr Safronov, speed skater and Olympian (b. 1952)
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June 30 — Rostislav Plyatt, stage and film actor (b. 1908)
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July 1 — Victor Nekipelov, poet and writer (b. 1928)
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July 2 — Andrei Gromyko, politician and diplomat, 9th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (b. 1909)
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July 4 — Leyla Mammadbeyova, first Azerbaijani female aviator (b. 1909)
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August 25 — Yan Frankel, composer and performer (b. 1920)
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September 7 — Valery Goborov, basketball player and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1966)
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October 13 — Merab Kostava, Georgian dissident, musician and poet (b. 1939)
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October 14 — Klavdiya Mayuchaya, javelin thrower and European champion (b. 1918)
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October 15 — Tadevos Hakobyan, Armenian historian and geographer (b. 1917)
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October 17 — Mark Krein, mathematician (b. 1907)
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October 28 — Yuliya Solntseva, actress and film director (b. 1901)
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November 7 — Andrey Borovykh, World War II flying ace and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1921)
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November 14 — Samand Siabandov, writer, soldier and politician (b. 1909)
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November 22 — Shamil Serikov, wrestler and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1956)
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November 28 — Georgy Ilivitsky, chess master (b. 1921)
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November 29 — Natan Eidelman, author and historian (b. 1930)
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December 1 — Nikolai Patolichev, politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Trade (b. 1908)
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December 3 — Alexander Obukhov, physicist and applied mathematician (b. 1918)
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December 5 — Sofiya Kalistratova, lawyer and human rights activist (b. 1907)
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December 7 — Vadim Spiridonov, film actor and director (b. 1944)
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December 8 — Mykola Livytskyi, Ukrainian politician, prime minister and president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in-exile
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December 14
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December 19 — Kirill Mazurov, politician, 19th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1914)
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December 28 — Pavel Kurochkin, army general (b. 1900)
References
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^ "1989: Millions of Russians go to the polls". BBC News. 1989-03-27. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^ "The April 9 tragedy (Tbilisi Massacre) – Global History Lab 2021". Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^ "29. Soviet Union/Lithuania (1940-1991)". uca.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^ "Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world". BBC News. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
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