Soviet History Timeline (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 1,263

• 1942-09-23 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad
• 1942-10-12 Successful Soviet counterattack through 37th Guard division
• 1942-10-29 Nazis murder 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Soviet Union
• 1942-11-19 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
• 1942-11-20 26th Soviet Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
• 1942-11-23 Soviet 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
• 1942-12-25 Soviet artillery and tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
• 1943-01-10 Soviet offensive against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad
• 1943-01-13 Soviet offensive at Don under general Golikov
• 1943-01-15 World War II: The Soviets begin a counter-offensive at Voronezh

• 1943-01-21 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
• 1943-01-21 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk

• 1943-02-14 The Soviet Union recaptures the city of Rostov-on-Don, liberating Russia from the German 17th Army during WWII
• 1943-02-16 World War II: The USSR reconquers Kharkov
• 1943-03-12 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
• 1943-04-27 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
• 1943-07-05 Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: Nazi German Panzer Division assault begins what becomes the largest tank in history
• 1943-07-06 2nd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: 25,000 Germans killed
• 1943-07-07 3rd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: Germans occupy Dubrova, Luftwaffe fighter ace shoots down 7 Russian aircraft
• 1943-07-08 4th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel - Nazi General Model uses last tank reserve
• 1943-07-09 5th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel - Germans occupy Verchopenje
• 1943-07-10 6th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel continues
• 1943-07-11 7th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel continues
• 1943-07-12 8th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Kutuzov (Soviet counter-offensive begins
• 1943-07-12 Soviet offensive at Orel
• 1943-08-04 Soviet units reach suburbs of Orel
• 1943-08-05 Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod
• 1943-08-21 USSR names Andrei Gromyko as its Ambassador to the United States
• 1943-08-22 Soviet troops free Karkov
• 1943-08-23 50th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Largest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, nearly 250,000 combatants killed
• 1943-09-16 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquers Romny, Northern Ukraine
• 1943-09-17 World War II: Soviet city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazi control
• 1943-09-21 Soviet 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov
• 1943-09-21 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr
• 1943-09-24 Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
• 1943-09-25 Soviet troops liberate Smolensk
• 1943-10-30 Soviet forces under Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin commenced offensive on the 4th Ukrainian Front
• 1943-11-06 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
• 1943-11-06 Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula
• 1943-12-28 All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route.
• 1944-01-14 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
• 1944-01-27 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed
• 1944-02-01 Supreme Soviet increases Soviet republics' autonomy

• 1944-04-02 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
• 1944-04-10 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from the Axis powers
• 1944-04-13 New Zealand and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations

• 1944-05-05 Soviet offensive against Sebastopol, Crimea
• 1944-05-18 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
• 1944-06-09 Soviet offensive in Carelia, Finland
• 1944-06-20 Soviet forces conquer Finnish held Viborg / Wiborg
• 1944-06-22 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre
• 1944-06-23 Soviet offensive in central front sector
• 1944-06-29 Soviet Armies join in Bobroesjk
• 1944-07-17 Soviet troops cross Bug River and march into Poland
• 1944-07-22 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
• 1944-07-23 Soviet Army marches into Lublin, Poland
• 1944-07-24 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
• 1944-07-26 Soviet troops arrive in Weichsel
• 1944-07-27 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
• 1944-08-14 Soviet offensive at Weichsel
• 1944-08-17 Soviet troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
• 1944-08-20 Soviet offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
• 1944-08-30 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania
• 1944-08-31 Soviet & Romanian troops march into Bucharest
• 1944-09-15 Soviet troops free Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1944-09-19 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War)
• 1944-09-26 Soviet forces occupy Estonia
• 1944-09-29 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
• 1944-10-06 Soviet forces march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
• 1944-10-18 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
• 1944-10-20 Soviet and Yugoslav troops free Belgrade
• 1944-10-23 Soviet army invades Hungary
• 1944-12-26 Budapest surrounded by the Soviet army
• 1945-01-12 The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe
• 1945-01-17 Soviet army enters the devastated city of Warsaw and clears German resistance
• 1945-01-17 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet secret police in Hungary
• 1945-01-18 Soviet Armed Forces enter Kraków, Poland to push Germans out, only to eventually occupy entire country
• 1945-01-20 The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany

• 1945-01-30 German passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed off Danzig by a Soviet submarine - killing about 9,000 people, the world's greatest maritime disaster
• 1945-01-31 Soviet troops reach the Oder River, less that 50 miles from Berlin

• 1945-02-13 Soviet forces capture Budapest after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany that killed 159,000 people
• 1945-03-12 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
• 1945-03-30 USSR invades Austria
• 1945-04-02 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established
• 1945-04-04 World War II: Soviet forces liberate Hungary from German occupation, establishing their own communist satellite state. This was celebrated as Liberation Day until 1989.
• 1945-04-18 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia established
• 1945-04-19 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established
• 1945-04-20 Soviet artillery begins shelling Berlin
• 1945-04-21 WWII: Soviet army arrives at outskirts of Berlin, Germany
• 1945-04-25 "Elbe Day" - US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in World War II

• 1945-04-30 Soviet Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp
• 1945-05-01 About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army
• 1945-05-01 Soviet army reaches Rostock
• 1945-05-02 Battle of Berlin ends as the Soviet army storms the capital, forcing German commander of the city general Helmuth Weidling to surrender

• 1945-05-09 The Soviet Union celebrates Victory Day in World War II
• 1945-05-10 Soviet troops occupied Prague
• 1945-06-05 WWII: Allied Powers (US, UK, USSR, and France) assume supreme authority over Germany with the "Berlin Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany" [1]
• 1945-06-28 Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets
• 1945-06-29 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, annexed by Soviet Union, becomes Ukrainian SSR

• 1945-08-08 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
• 1945-08-08 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
• 1945-08-16 Puyi, the last Chinese Emperor and ruler of Manchukuo is captured by Soviet troops
• 1945-08-20 Soviet troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
• 1946-03-19 Nikolai Mikhailovich Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
• 1946-05-08 Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn
• 1946-10-28 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
• 1947-02-10 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
• 1947-02-17 Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
• 1947-07-03 Soviet Union doesn't participate in Marshall Plan

• 1947-10-11 Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR
• 1947-12-04 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
• 1947-12-10 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement

• 1948-05-17 Soviet Union recognizes Israel

• 1948-08-20 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
• 1948-10-06 Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1948-11-30 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin

• 1949-03-25 The Soviet Union begins Operation Pribioi, the mass deportation of 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to inhospitable areas in the Soviet Union
• 1949-08-29 USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR

• 1949-10-02 USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
• 1950-01-12 USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage

• 1950-02-14 USSR & China sign peace treaty
• 1950-03-01 USSR issues golden roubles

• 1951-03-29 American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union
• 1951-06-23 Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR
• 1951-09-24 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1951-10-06 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
• 1951-10-18 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1952-06-12 USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
• 1952-06-13 Soviet fighters shoots down Swedish Air Force Dakota DC-3 reconnaissance plane east of Gotska Sandön in the Baltic Sea, kills entire crew of 8
• 1952-06-16 Soviet Fighters shoots down Swedish Air Force Catalina as it participates in search for missing Dakota DC-3, crew survives
• 1952-08-20 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meets Chinese premier Zhou Enlai
• 1952-08-28 Yakov Malik succeeds Valerian Zorin as Soviet Foreign Minister
• 1953-02-11 USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
• 1953-02-12 USSR breaks relations with Israel

• 1953-07-20 USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations
• 1953-07-29 US bomber shot down by Soviet Air Defence Forces in the Sea of Japan, north of Vladivostok
• 1953-08-08 Soviet leader Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb [1]
• 1953-08-12 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
• 1953-08-23 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1953-08-29 USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb

• 1954-01-30 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
• 1954-03-31 USSR offers to join NATO
• 1954-04-14 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
• 1954-04-21 Georgi Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
• 1954-04-22 USSR joins UNESCO
• 1954-04-24 Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
• 1954-04-26 USSR Supreme Soviet transfer the Crimean oblast from Russian SFSR to Ukrainian SSR
• 1954-09-14 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1955-01-15 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
• 1955-02-08 Georgy Malenkov resigns as USSR premier and is replaced by Nikolai Bulganin
• 1955-02-12 Soviets decides space center to be built in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
• 1955-03-25 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
• 1955-03-29 Linguist Yuri Knorosov defends his master's thesis in Moscow, expanding on his new phonetic method to decipher the Mayan script (first announced in article Soviet Ethnology 1952) [1]
• 1955-05-07 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain
• 1955-05-14 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
• 1955-05-15 Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restore Austria's independence
• 1955-05-31 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
• 1955-06-02 The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.

• 1955-07-29 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1955-08-02 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1955-08-25 Last Soviet forces leave Austria
• 1955-09-21 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1955-10-03 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
• 1955-11-06 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1955-11-22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1956-01-26 Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
• 1956-02-11 British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean deny working as spies for Soviet Russia after reappearing in the Soviet Union after going missing 5 years earlier
• 1956-02-25 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 1956-03-20 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) erupts
• 1956-03-20 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1956-03-30 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1956-04-17 USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves
• 1956-06-04 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" criticizing Joseph Stalin is made public
• 1956-08-30 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
• 1956-10-23 Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).

• 1956-11-02 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
• 1956-11-04 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Soviet movement in Budapest, Hungary

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