1950 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1950 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

 * 5 January – 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster

February

 * 14 February – The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is concluded.

March

 * 12 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1950

April

 * 2 April – Drifting ice station North Pole-2 is established.

June

 * 28 June – 4 July – The Pavlovian session is held.

August

 * 13 August – The steamer Mayakovsky sinks in Riga, killing 147 people in the deadliest peacetime Soviet shipping disaster.

Births

 * 12 May – Viktor Ivanov, director of the Federal Narcotics Control Service
 * 11 August – Gennadiy Nikonov, weapons designer
 * 1 September – Mikhail Fradkov, politician
 * 11 December – Alexander Tatarsky, film director

Deaths

 * 8 April – Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (born 1889)
 * 1 October
 * – Nikolai Voznesensky, Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1903)
 * – Alexey Kuznetsov, Senior Secretary of Cadres of the CPSU (born 1905)
 * – Mikhail Rodionov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (born 1907)