1954 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1954 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

 * First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev
 * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov
 * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Georgy Malenkov

January

 * 25 January-18 February – Berlin Conference (1954)

February

 * 19 February – 1954 transfer of Crimea

March

 * 14 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1954

May

 * 16 May-26 June – Kengir uprising

June

 * 6 June – Moscow's statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, originally conceived in 1947 in recognition of the 800th anniversary of the city's foundation, is finally unveiled.
 * 26 June – The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned.

September

 * 14 September – The Totskoye nuclear exercise is held.

Births

 * 23 February – Viktor Yushchenko, third President of Ukraine
 * 4 March – Irina Ratushinskaya, writer
 * 16 June – Sergey Kuryokhin, composer
 * 17 August – Anatoly Kudryavitsky, writer
 * 30 August – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus

Deaths

 * 12 February – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (born 1896)
 * 22 November – Andrey Vyshinsky, diplomat (born 1883)