1962 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1962 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 - Leonid Brezhnev
 * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union - Nikita Khrushchev

Events

 * 1962 Soviet nuclear tests
 * Operation Anadyr

June

 * 1–2 June – Novocherkassk massacre
 * 17 June – K-3 becomes the first Soviet submarine to reach the North Pole.
 * 30 June – Aeroflot Flight 902 crashes 28 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk airport, killing all 84 on board.

October

 * 14–28 October – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.

Births

 * 4 January – Natalya Bochina, sprinter
 * 17 January – Igor Surovikin, Russian professional football coach and former player
 * 6 April – Natalie Holland, Russian-born contemporary artist
 * 30 August – Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned former KGB and FSB colonel

Deaths

 * 19 September – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (b. 1900)