The following lists events that happened during 1962 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 — Leonid Brezhnev Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union — Nikita Khrushchev
Events 1962 Soviet nuclear tests Operation Anadyr June June 1–2 — Novocherkassk massacre June 17 — K-3 becomes the first Soviet submarine to reach the North Pole. June 30 — Aeroflot Flight 902 crashes 28 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk airport, killing all 84 on board.
October October 14–28 — The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.
Births January 1 — Vladimir Popov, Russian wrestler (d. 2025) January 4 — Natalya Bochina, sprinter January 17 — Igor Surovikin, Russian professional football coach and former player January 22 — Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Russian athlete April 6 — Natalie Holland, Russian-born contemporary artist August 30 — Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB and FSB colonel (d. 2006) September 5 — Tatyana Koshkaryova, Russian journalist November 5 – Irina Mishina, Russian journalist and television presenter
Deaths January 6 — Marziyya Davudova, actress (b. 1901) February 22 — Boris Vannikov, politician and political commissar (b. 1897) March 11 — Viacheslav Ragozin, chess player, writer and editor (b. 1908) March 19 — Vasily Stalin, general and son of Joseph Stalin (b. 1921) June 9 — Andrey Khrulyov, military commander (b. 1892) June 16 — Aleksei Antonov, general (b. 1896) June 27 — Paul Viiding, poet, author and literary critic (b. 1904) September 19 — Nikolai Pogodin, playwright (b. 1900) October 28 — Vera Pashennaya, stage and film actress and pedagogue (b. 1887)
See also 1962 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1962
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