The following lists events that happened during 1956 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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 February 9 February – The report of the Pospelov Commission is presented to the presidium. 14–25 February – 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 25 February – Nikita Khrushchev makes the speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.
March March – 1956 Georgian demonstrations
October 19 October – Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956
November 4 November – United Nations Security Council Resolution 120 is passed. 7 November – The 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition leaves Kaliningrad 18 November – "We will bury you" is spoken by Nikita Khrushchev. 21 November – Soviet submarine M-200 is rammed and sunk by a Soviet destroyer, killing the submarine's crew.
Births 13 January - Vladimir Merovshchikov, Russian professional football coach and former player 1 March - Dalia Grybauskaite, president of Lithuania 19 March – Yegor Gaidar, economist (d. 2009) 6 May – Vladimir Lisin, oligarch 10 May – Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev, journalist 7 November – Mikhail Alperin, jazz pianist, member of the Moscow Art Trio, professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music (d. 2018).
Deaths 3 January – Alexander Gretchaninov, composer
See also 1956 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1956
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