1981 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1981 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Nikolai Tikhonov
- Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union – Lev Smirnov
Events
- 1 April – Daylight saving time was implemented for the first time in the USSR[1]
- 28 April – The USSR national team won the World Ice Hockey Championship in Sweden[2]
Births
- 31 January – Yulia Nachalova, singer (d. 2019)
- 18 February – Andrei Kirilenko, basketball player
- 19 March – Maksim Arap, footballer
- 26 March – Danis Zaripov, ice hockey player
- 30 March – Sergei Mozyakin, ice hockey player
- 8 April – Nikolay Kruglov Jr., biathlete
- 12 April – Yuriy Borzakovskiy, middle-distance runner
- 17 April – Konstantin Koltsov, ice hockey player (d. 2024)
- 30 April – Peter Nalitch, singer
- 29 May – Andrey Arshavin, footballer[3]
- 2 June – Nikolay Davydenko, tennis player
- 7 June – Anna Kournikova, tennis player
- 26 June – Natalya Antyukh, athlete
- 6 July – Roman Shirokov, footballer
- 8 July – Anastasia Myskina, tennis player
- 30 August – Daniil Vorobyov, film and theatre actor
- 2 September – Aleksey Chadov, film actor
- 3 September – Evgeniya Brik, actress (d. 2022)
- 15 October – Marina Toybina, fashion and costume designer
- 31 October – Irina Denezhkina, writer
- 2 November – Tatiana Totmianina, pair skater
- 5 November – Ksenia Sobchak, political figure
- 30 November – Olga Krasko, actress
- 15 December – Roman Pavlyuchenko, footballer
- 16 December – Olga Medynich, theater and film actress
- 23 December – Anastasiya Makeyeva, actress and model
- 24 December – Dima Bilan, singer, songwriter
Deaths
- 3 March – Oleg Dal, actor (born 1941)
- 21 March – Mark Donskoy (born 1901)
- 1 April – Agniya Barto, poet and writer (born 1901)
- 18 November – Alexey Okladnikov, archaeologist and ethnographer (born 1908)
- 11 December – Zoya Fyodorova, actress (born 1908)
- 15 December – Mikhail Zharov, actor and director (born 1899)
See also
1981 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
- ^ "Daylight Saving Time Changes 1981 in Moscow, Russia". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
- ^ "Team Soviet Union - Ice Hockey World Championships 1981 - Player Stats". QuantHockey. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
- ^ 1981 in the Soviet Union at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)