# 1990 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1990 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

## Incumbents

* President of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev
* General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev
* Chairman of the Supreme Soviet – Mikhail Gorbachev (until 15 March), Anatoly Lukyanov (after 15 March)
* Vice President of the Soviet Union – Gennady Yanayev
* Premier of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Ryzhkov

## Events
### January

* January 12 – Baku pogrom
* January 19–20 – Black January

### March

* March 4 – 1990 Russian Supreme Soviet election
* March 11 – Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

### May

* May 4 – Declaration "On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia"
* May 6 – Bridge of Flowers
* May 9 – 1990 Moscow Victory Day Parade
* May 16 – Congress of People's Deputies of Russia is established
* May 30–31 – 1990 Vrancea earthquakes

### June

* June 1 – 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord
* June 4–6 – Osh riots
* June 7–8 – 1990 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church
* June 12 – Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
* June 19 – Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is established

### July

* Unknown date – Gazprombank was founded.
* July 14 – The 28th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is elected
* July 14 – Central Committee elected by the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
* July 16 – Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine
* July 27 – Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic

### August

* August 10 – Tbilisi–Agdam bus bombing
* August 30 – The 500 Days program is established

### October

* October 11 – Declaration of State Sovereignty of Bashkortostan
* October 17 – VTB Bank was founded.
* October 24 – Soviet nuclear tests
* October 27 – Askar Akayev is elected as the 1st President of Kyrgyzstan
* October 27 – The first episode of Pole Chudes is presented

### November

November 7 – The Last Parade of The October Revolution takes on Moscow's Red Square on 73th Anniversary of the Bolsheviks Seizure of Power

## Births

* August 23 — Anton Tikhomirov, Russian professional ice hockey player
* September 19 — Evgeny Novikov, Russian rally driver

## Deaths
### January

* January 2 — Leonhard Merzin, Estonian actor (b. 1934)
* January 4 — Boris Nikolsky, physical chemist and radiochemist (b. 1900)
* January 5 — Genrikh Sidorenkov, ice hockey player (b. 1931)
* January 6 — Pavel Cherenkov, physicist (b. 1904)
* January 19
** Alexander Pechersky, soldier and humanitarian (b. 1909)
** Movses Gorgisyan, Armenian activist and politician (b. 1961)
** Maharram Seyidov, Azerbaijani soldier (b. 1952)
* January 26 — Dodo Abashidze, actor and film director (b. 1924)
* January 30 — Nina Niss-Goldman, painter, sculptor and teacher (b. 1892)

### February

* February 2 — Paul Ariste, linguist (b. 1905)
* February 16 — Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, 14th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (b. 1918)
* February 22 — Evald Seepere, Estonian boxer (b. 1911)
* February 23 — David Samoylov, poet (b. 1920)

### March

* March 4
** Konstantin Kokkinaki, fighter and test pilot (b. 1910)
** Vasily Margelov, general (b. 1908)
* March 7 — Shenork I Kaloustian of Constantinople, 82th Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1913)
* March 9 — George Costakis, collector of Russian art (b. 1913)
* March 14 — Yuri Sokolov, Soviet Olympic judoka (1988) and criminal (b. 1961)
* March 15 — Mykola Makhynia, football player and coach (b. 1912)
* March 20 — Lev Yashin, footballer (b. 1929)
* March 30 — Vladimir Stolnikov, boxer (b. 1934)

### April

* April 4
** Leonid Dushkin, rocket engineer (b. 1910)
** Mark Fradkin, composer (b. 1914)
* April 5 — Lev Skvirsky, lieutenant-general (b. 1903)
* April 6 — Yevgeny Savitsky, fighter ace and air marshal (b. 1910)
* April 19 — Sergey Filippov, actor and comedian (b. 1912)
* April 24
** Endel Pärn, actor and singer (b. 1914)
** Vladimir Saprykin, Red Army officer and war hero (b. 1916)
* April 27 — Vladimir Kanygin, middleweight weightlifter (b. 1948)
* April 30
** Vasili Yermasov, football goalkeeper and manager (b. 1913)
** Mark Zborowski, anthropologist and spy (b. 1908)

### May

* May 3 — Pimen I of Moscow, 14th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (b. 1910)
* May 11 — Venedikt Yerofeyev, writer and dissident (b. 1938)
* May 12 — Andrei Kirilenko, politician (b. 1906)
* May 15
** Porfiry Krylov, painter and graphic artist (b. 1902)
** Anna Schchian, botanist (b. 1905)
* May 24 — Julijans Vaivods, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1895)
* May 26 — Varlen Pen, painter (b. 1916)
* May 28 — Inna Gulaya, actress (b. 1940)

### June

* June 1 — Natalia Tkachenko, painter (b. 1908)
* June 4 — Yulian Bromley, anthropologist (b. 1921)
* June 5 — Vasili Kuznetsov, politician (b. 1901)
* June 6
** Sobir Kamolov, 10th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbek SSR (b. 1910)
** Fyodor Remezov, general (b. 1896)
* June 11 — Irakly Andronikov, literature historian and media personality (b. 1908)
* June 14 — Ralf Liivar, Estonian football player (b. 1903)
* June 17 — Aleksandrs Leimanis, film director (b. 1913)
* June 19 — Aleksandr Goncharov, field hockey player and Olympian (b. 1959)
* June 22
** Marat Podoksin, painter (b. 1930)
** Ilya Frank, nuclear physicist (b. 1908)
* June 25 — Yevgeniya Sechenova, sprinter (b. 1918)
* June 28 — Borys Ivchenko, Ukrainian actor and film director (b. 1941)

### July

* July 1 – Ivan Serov, 1st Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1905)
* July 4 — Pavel Utkin, painter (b. 1920)
* July 10 – Sergei Rudenko, general (b. 1904)
* July 12 – Savkuz Dzarasov, wrestler and Olympic medalist (b. 1930)
* July 15
** Oleg Kagan, violinist (b. 1946)
** Enn Roos, sculptor (b. 1908)
* July 16
** Mikhail Matusovsky, poet (b. 1915)
** Valentin Pikul, novelist (b. 1928)
* July 17 – Lidiya Ginzburg, literary critic (b. 1902)
* July 19
** Georgi Burkov, actor (b. 1933)
** Gusman Kosanov, Olympic sprinter (b. 1935)
* July 20 – Sergei Parajanov, filmmaker (b. 1924)
* July 22 – Eduard Streltsov, footballer (b. 1937)

### August

* August 2 — Vladilen Nikiforov, Soviet painter (b. 1930)
* August 6 — Baqi Urmançe, painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1897)
* August 15 — Viktor Tsoi, singer and songwriter (b. 1962)
* August 22 – Boris Shcherbina, politician (b. 1919)
* August 24 – Sergei Dovlatov, journalist and writer (b. 1941)
* August 29 – Solomon Mikhlin, mathematician (b. 1908)
* August 30 — Timofey Ksenofontov, Soviet painter
* August 31 – Sergey Volkov, figure skater and Olympian (b. 1949)

### September

* September 1 – Afanasy Beloborodov, general (b. 1903)
* September 3
** Slava Amiragov, Olympic rower (b. 1926)
** Eugene Martynov, singer (b. 1948)
* September 8 – Boris Tenin, actor (b. 1905)
* September 9
** Alexander Men, theologian (b. 1935)
** Anatoly Sofronov, author and poet (b. 1911)
** Rimantas Stankevičius, cosmonaut and pilot (b. 1944)
* September 14 – Leonid Ivanov, footballer (b. 1921)
* September 15 – Valentin Filatyev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
* September 16 – Semyon Kurkotkin, general (b. 1917)
* September 21 – Alexander Konstantinopolsky, chess player (b. 1910)
* September 27 – Matvey Blanter, composer "Katyusha" (b. 1903)

### October

* October 4 – Sergey Lapin, diplomat (b. 1912)
* October 9 – Boris Paichadze, footballer (b. 1915)
* October 14 – Irina Odoyevtseva, poet, novelist and memoirist (b. 1895)
* October 15 – Boris Piotrovsky, archaeologist (b. 1908)
* October 18 – Pyotr Fedoseyev, philosopher and politician (b. 1908)
* October 22 – Nikolai Rybnikov, film actor (b. 1930)
* October 24 — Boris Maluev, Soviet painter and graphic artist (b. 1929)
* October 25 – Zara Mints, literary scientist (b. 1927)
* October 28
** Aleksandra Chudina, track and field athlete and volleyball player (b. 1923)
** Kolau Nadiradze, poet (b. 1895)
* October 29 – Aleksey Alelyukhin, flying ace (b. 1920)

### November

* November 3 – Nikolai Rakov, violinist (b. 1908)
* November 5 – Suleiman Yudakov, composer (b. 1916)
* November 7 — Stepan Privedentsev, painter (b. 1916)
* November 14 – Leonid Trauberg, film director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
* November 16 – Dmitri Skobeltsyn, physicist (b. 1892)
* November 19 – Georgy Flyorov, Soviet nuclear physicist (b. 1913)
* November 25 – Merab Mamardashvili, philosopher (b. 1930)

### December

* December 1 – Anton Kochinyan, 11th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia (b. 1913)
* December 3 – Heino Mandri, film and stage actor (b. 1922)
* December 8 – Boris Kochno, dancer, librettist and poet (b. 1904)
* December 15 – Mikayil Jabrayilov, Azerbaijani soldier (b. 1952)
* December 21 – Ivan Knunyants, chemist (b. 1906)
* December 25
** Vladimir Belousov, geologist (b. 1907)
** Alexander Luchinsky, general (b. 1900)
* December 27 – Abulfat Aliyev, opera singer (b. 1926)
* December 31 – Vasily Lazarev, cosmonaut (b. 1928)