1956 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1956 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 – Nikolai Bulganin

February

 * 9 February – The report of the Pospelov Commission is presented to the presidium.
 * 14–25 February – 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 * 25 February – Nikita Khrushchev makes the speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.

March

 * March – 1956 Georgian demonstrations

October

 * 19 October – Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956

November

 * 4 November – United Nations Security Council Resolution 120 is passed.
 * 7 November – The 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition leaves Kaliningrad
 * 18 November – "We will bury you" is spoken by Nikita Khrushchev.
 * 21 November – Soviet submarine M-200 is rammed and sunk by a Soviet destroyer, killing the submarine's crew.

Births

 * 13 January - Vladimir Merovshchikov, Russian professional football coach and former player
 * 1 March - Dalia Grybauskaite, president of Lithuania
 * 19 March – Yegor Gaidar, economist (d. 2009)
 * 6 May – Vladimir Lisin, oligarch
 * 10 May – Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev, journalist
 * 7 November – Mikhail Alperin, jazz pianist, member of the Moscow Art Trio, professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music (d. 2018).

Deaths

 * 3 January – Alexander Gretchaninov, composer