1949 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1949 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

 * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
 * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Nikolay Shvernik
 * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin

January

 * 25 January – The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON) is established by the Soviet Union and other communist nations.
 * c. 29 January – Stalin and antisemitism: The Soviet media resume a savage propaganda campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans", a euphemism for Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist

March

 * 25–28 March – Operation Priboi

May

 * 12 May – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade

July

 * 10 July – 1949 Khait earthquake

August

 * 29 August – The atomic bomb RDS-1 is exploded in the first Soviet nuclear test

September

 * 13 September – The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal

October

 * 2 October – The Soviet Union recognizes the People's Republic of China, proclaimed on the previous day

November

 * 7 November – Oil is discovered beneath the Caspian Sea, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

December

 * 21 December – Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday is celebrated in Moscow
 * 25–31 December – Khabarovsk War Crime Trials

Births

 * 29 January – Evgeny Lovchev, footballer
 * 25 February – Viktor Klimenko, Olympic gymnast
 * 26 February – Viktor Ulyanich, boxer
 * 17 March – Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter
 * 12 June – Yuri Baturin, cosmonaut
 * 3 July – Aleksandr Salnikov, basketball player
 * 3 August – Valeri Vasiliev, hockey player
 * 18 September – Gennady Komnatov, cyclist
 * 23 September – Elena Guskova, historian
 * 2 October – Alexander Aksinin, painter
 * 28 October – Volodymyr Onyshchenko, footballer
 * 21 November
 * Elena Mikhailovskaya, female draughts player
 * Anatoliy Kuksov, footballer
 * 23 November – Viktor Poganovsky, Olympic equestrian