1970 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1970 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: Alexei Kosygin
- Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov
Events
- May 24 – The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins.
- June 1 – The two-man spacecraft Soyuz 9 is launched.
- June 15 – Operation Wedding: Fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane.
- October 6 – French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
- October 8 – Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- October 15 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
- October 20 – The Zond 8 lunar probe is launched.
- November 9 – Luna 17 is launched.
- November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings.
Births
- January 2 – Oksana Omelianchik, artistic gymnast
- March 16 – Oleg Pavlov, writer (died 2018)
- August 26 – Olimpiada Ivanova, race walker
Deaths
- January 10 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (peritonitis; born 1925)
- June 11 (in the United States) – Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary and politician (born 1881)