# 1964 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1964 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

## Incumbents

* First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:
       Nikita Khrushchev (Until October 14)
       Leonid Brezhnev (Starting October 14)
* Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union:
       Leonid Brezhnev (Until July 15)
       Anastas Mikoyan (Starting July 15)
* Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union:
       Nikita Khrushchev (Until October 15)
       Alexei Kosygin (Starting October 15)

## Events
### October

* October 12 — Voskhod 1 is the first space flight to carry more than one crewmen into orbit, and the first space flight without the use of spacesuits.
* October 14-15 — Khrushchev ousted from government by Leonid Brezhnev, Replaced as First Secretary by Brezhnev and as Chairman of the Council by Alexei Kosygin
* October 10-24 — Soviet Athletes compete in 1964 Summer Olympics, Placing second place behind the United States with 96 medals (30 Gold, 31 Silver, 35 Bronze)

## Births

* January 1 — Aleksandr Lapin, Russian army officer and commander of the Leningrad Military District
* January 4 — Alexandre Fadeev, figure skater
* February 4 — Vyacheslav Volodin, 5th Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
* February 9 — Vladislav Vetrov, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, director and writer
* February 16 — Valentina Yegorova, Russian long-distance runner
* February 28 — Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistani road racing cyclist
* March 7 — Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakh cross-country skier
* March 25 — Dmitry Selivanov, Siberian rock singer (d. 1989)
* April 3 — Yelena Ruzina, Russian Olympic athlete
* April 13 — Dokka Umarov, Chechen mujahid and Emir of the Caucasus Emirate (d. 2013)
* April 17 — Tahmasib Ajdarov, Azerbaijani scientist and Doctor of Economics
* April 21 — Ludmila Engquist, Russian-Swedish athlete
* May 19 — Gitanas Nauseda, 9th President of Lithuania
* June 13 — Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
* June 20 — Ethella Chupryk, Ukrainian pianist (d. 2019)
* July 3 — Aleksei Serebryakov, Russian stage actor
* August 1 — Natalya Shikolenko, Belarusian javelin thrower
* August 24 — Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut and astronaut
* August 25 — Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
* September 3 — Ricochet, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
* September 10 — Yegor Letov, singer (d. 2008)
* September 14 — Akylbek Japarov, 2nd Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan
* October 2 — Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler
* October 22 — Zurab Nogaideli, 5th Prime Minister of Georgia
* November 28 — Giorgi Bagaturov, Georgian-Armernian chess grandmaster
* December 15 — Kubatbek Boronov, 21st Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
* December 19 — Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player

## Deaths

* January 31 — Kanysh Satbayev, academician and geologist (b. 1899)
* February 3
** Allaberdy Berdyev, 2nd Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR (b. 1904)
** Ivan Zarubin, linguist specializing in the Pamir languages (b. 1887)
* May 17 — Otto Kuusinen, 1st Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (b. 1881)
* June 16 — Lidia Klement, singer (b. 1937)
* June 30 — Alexander Bubnov, avant-garde painter and Socialist realist (b. 1908)
* July 4 — Samuil Marshak, writer (b. 1887)
* July 13 — Mikhail Nazvanov, stage and film actor (b. 1914)
* July 22 — Leonid Baratov, opera director (b. 1895)
* August 12 — Dmitry Maksutov, optical engineer and inventor of the Maksutov telescope (b. 1896)
* August 22 — Symeon Lukach, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop and martyr (b. 1893)
* August 27 — Aleksey Zhivotov, composer (b. 1904)
* August 30 — Aleksei Grechkin, army commander (b. 1893)
* September 14 — Vasily Grossman, writer and journalist (b. 1905)
* September 28 — Mikhail Svetlov, poet (b. 1903)
* October 19
** Sergey Biryuzov, 5th Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (b. 1904)
** Nikolay Shkodunovich, lieutenant general (b. 1900)
** Vladimir Zhdanov, colonel-general (b. 1902)
* October 25 — Terenty Shtykov, general (b. 1907)
* October 29 — Vasily Agapkin, conductor, composer, and author of the march "Farewell of Slavianka" (b. 1884)
* December 7 — Nikolay Anichkov, pathologist (b. 1885)
* December 24 — Kuksha of Odessa, Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest (b. 1875)
* December 29 — Vladimir Favorsky, artist and engraver (b. 1886)