Soviet History Timeline (Part 4)

Events 601 - 800 of 1,263

• 1965-03-18 USSR launches Voshkod 2
• 1965-04-23 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
• 1965-05-01 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon

• 1965-05-09 Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
• 1965-05-11 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1965-06-08 USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
• 1965-07-03 USSR and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact
• 1965-07-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1965-09-21 O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')
• 1965-10-04 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
• 1965-10-08 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1965-11-12 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
• 1965-11-21 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk, USSR
• 1965-12-03 USSR launches Luna 8; it crashes on the Moon
• 1965-12-08 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
• 1965-12-09 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Soviet Praesidium

• 1966-01-31 USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon
• 1966-02-03 First soft landing on the Moon, by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 9
• 1966-02-13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1966-02-14 Russian writers Andrei Sinyavsky & Joey Daniel found guilty under the offense of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda for publishing their satirical writings abroad
• 1966-02-20 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
• 1966-02-22 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
• 1966-02-27 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova and Protopopov of the Soviet Union
• 1966-03-31 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
• 1966-04-02 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
• 1966-04-03 Soviet Luna 10 completes its first orbit of the Moon
• 1966-04-22 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1966-05-04 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
• 1966-06-25 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
• 1966-07-21 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1966-08-05 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1966-08-24 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
• 1966-09-07 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1966-09-30 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1966-10-19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1966-10-22 USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
• 1966-10-27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1966-12-08 US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
• 1966-12-18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1966-12-21 USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
• 1966-12-24 Soviet spacecraft Luna 13 lands on Moon
• 1967-01-26 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1967-02-26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967-03-04 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
• 1967-03-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967-04-20 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1967-05-19 USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space
• 1967-05-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967-06-10 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel
• 1967-06-12 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
• 1967-06-14 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit

• 1967-07-15 USSR performs a 23-kiloton nuclear test at Semipalatinsk in Eastern Kazakhstan
• 1967-08-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967-09-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967-09-22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967-09-30 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking
• 1967-10-06 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1967-10-17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967-10-18 Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
• 1967-10-30 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
• 1967-11-22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967-12-06 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1968-01-18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1968-03-02 Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopov of the Soviet Union
• 1968-03-02 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
• 1968-04-24 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1968-05-21 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
• 1968-07-01 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
• 1968-07-01 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1968-07-12 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1968-07-15 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
• 1968-08-15 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

• 1968-08-20 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1968-08-21 After 5 years Soviet Union once again jams Voice of America radio
• 1968-09-05 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1968-09-14 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
• 1968-09-21 Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 lands in the Indian ocean after a six-day flight - first successful circumlunar mission with two onboard tortoises surviving the trip
• 1968-10-16 Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
• 1968-10-26 Soviet Union launches spacecraft Soyuz 3
• 1968-10-29 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1968-11-07 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1968-11-09 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1968-11-18 Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon
• 1968-12-18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1968-12-31 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32 inches) recorded at Agata in Siberia, Soviet Union
• 1969-01-05 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
• 1969-01-10 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
• 1969-01-15 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
• 1969-01-16 Jan Palach, a Czech student, self-immolates in protest after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
• 1969-01-16 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
• 1969-01-17 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 5 lands
• 1969-02-28 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of the Soviet Union
• 1969-03-07 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1969-03-26 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
• 1969-05-16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1969-07-03 Soviet N1 rocket explodes just after launch off at Baikonur Cosmodrome - one of the largest-ever non-nuclear human-made explosion, debris spread over 10 km
• 1969-07-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1969-07-22 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
• 1969-07-23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1969-09-11 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1969-09-26 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1969-10-01 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1969-10-12 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan
• 1969-10-13 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 8 is launched
• 1969-10-14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1969-10-29 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1969-11-30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1969-12-06 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1969-12-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1969-12-30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1970-01-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1970-02-01 West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
• 1970-02-19 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
• 1970-03-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1970-03-30 USSR wins its 8th straight Ice Hockey World Championship, in Stockholm, Sweden; 10th overall win

• 1970-05-21 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1970-05-23 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
• 1970-05-24 The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union
• 1970-05-26 The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2
• 1970-05-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1970-05-29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1970-07-21 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1970-07-24 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1970-09-06 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1970-09-12 Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 16 launched to the moon
• 1970-09-20 Soviet spcecraft Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
• 1970-09-21 Soviet space probe Luna 16 leaves the Moon
• 1970-09-24 Soviet space probe Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
• 1970-10-08 Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1970-10-13 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1970-10-14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1970-10-28 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
• 1970-12-10 Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chooses not to claim his Nobel Prize in Literature for fear that the USSR would prevent his return afterwards. Accepts in 1974 after he was deported.
• 1970-12-12 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1970-12-15 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
• 1970-12-17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1970-12-23 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1971-02-11 US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
• 1971-03-22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1971-03-23 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1971-04-19 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
• 1971-04-22 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 10 launched
• 1971-04-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1971-05-19 USSR launches Mars 2, becomes the 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
• 1971-05-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1971-05-28 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
• 1971-06-07 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut space station
• 1971-07-02 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1971-09-27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1971-10-04 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1971-10-09 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1971-10-21 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1971-10-22 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1971-11-27 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
• 1971-11-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1971-12-02 Soviet space probe Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
• 1971-12-15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1971-12-22 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1971-12-30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1972-01-06 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
• 1972-02-10 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1972-03-04 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
• 1972-03-10 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1972-03-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1972-04-09 USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
• 1972-04-10 The US, USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons at the Biological Weapons Convention
• 1972-04-11 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972-05-26 US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT accord

• 1972-06-29 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
• 1972-07-08 US sells grain to USSR for $750 million
• 1972-07-09 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972-07-14 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• 1972-08-03 US Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit the use of missile systems capable of defending against missile-delivered nuclear weapons
• 1972-08-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1972-08-20 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972-08-26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1972-08-28 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1972-09-02 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1972-09-04 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972-09-09 Soviet Union beats the United States 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history; with US leading 50-49 the final 3 seconds is replayed 3 times until the Soviets finally win
• 1972-09-21 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972-10-03 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1972-11-02 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1972-11-24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972-12-10 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1972-12-21 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
• 1972-12-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1973-01-08 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
• 1973-01-16 USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon
• 1973-02-15 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)

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