Soviet History Timeline (Part 6)

Events 1001 - 1,200 of 1,263

• 1981-11-22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1981-11-30 Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17)
• 1981-12-24 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1981-12-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1982-02-03 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
• 1982-02-19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1982-04-19 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
• 1982-04-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1982-06-24 1st spacionaut Jean-Loup Chrétien and 2 Soviet cosmonauts, lift off aboard Soyuz T-16
• 1982-06-24 Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
• 1982-07-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1982-07-30 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• 1982-07-31 USSR performs nuclear Test
• 1982-08-23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1982-08-28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1982-08-31 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1982-09-04 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1982-09-25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1982-10-01 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1982-10-16 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1982-10-17 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1982-11-29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1982-11-30 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1982-12-05 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1982-12-26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-02-01 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1983-02-24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1983-03-02 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1983-03-08 House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR

• 1983-03-11 Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova & Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
• 1983-03-30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-04-05 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
• 1983-04-12 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-04-25 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to the Soviet Union
• 1983-05-03 Soviet leader Yuri Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
• 1983-06-16 General Secretary Yuri Andropov appointed President of the Soviet Union
• 1983-07-07 11-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
• 1983-07-21 World's lowest-ever natural temperature recorded −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at Soviet Vostok Station, Antarctica
• 1983-07-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-08-18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1983-08-25 US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
• 1983-09-01 Korean Boeing 747, flight 007, strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
• 1983-09-06 Soviet Union admits that it shot down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1st
• 1983-09-11 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-09-12 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
• 1983-09-22 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1983-09-24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1983-09-25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
• 1983-09-26 Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error
• 1983-10-06 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-10-26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-11-23 USSR leaves weapon disarmament talks
• 1983-11-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-12-26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1983-12-28 US threatens to leave UNESCO after objecting to its domination by a coalition of third world and Soviet bloc nations

• 1984-02-19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-03-01 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-03-21 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
• 1984-03-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-04-11 General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko named President of the Soviet Union
• 1984-04-15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-04-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-05-08 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Los Angeles Summer Olympics in retaliation for the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
• 1984-06-29 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
• 1984-07-14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-07-21 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• 1984-08-11 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
• 1984-08-25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1984-08-26 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
• 1984-08-27 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1984-08-28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1984-09-15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1984-09-17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1984-10-18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-10-25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1984-10-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-11-18 The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine
• 1984-11-23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-12-02 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1984-12-15 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
• 1984-12-21 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
• 1984-12-28 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1985-02-10 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1985-03-10 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (Soviet Union)

• 1985-04-19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1985-05-20 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
• 1985-05-22 US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
• 1985-06-09 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
• 1985-06-15 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
• 1985-07-02 Andrei Gromyko appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in the USSR
• 1985-07-11 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1985-07-18 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• 1985-07-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1985-09-10 U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can't be forcibly returned to parents' country if it's deemed "not in the best interests" of underage defectors
• 1985-11-16 President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
• 1985-11-19 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time
• 1986-02-11 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
• 1986-02-19 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
• 1986-03-06 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
• 1986-03-09 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
• 1986-03-13 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir

• 1986-04-27 Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat (pop. 50,000) 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident

• 1986-08-30 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
• 1986-09-06 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
• 1986-09-09 NYC jury indicts Soviet United Nations employee Gennadly Zakharov of spying
• 1986-09-17 Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
• 1986-09-29 USSR releases American journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
• 1986-09-30 US releases Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
• 1986-10-03 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
• 1986-10-19 USSR expels five US diplomats

• 1987-02-26 USSR resumes nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-03-12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk (Soviet Union)
• 1987-04-03 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-04-17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-04-19 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1987-04-20 US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
• 1987-05-06 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-05-15 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)
• 1987-05-28 Mathias Rust, 18-year-old West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing near Red Square, Moscow in USSR
• 1987-07-06 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1987-07-12 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
• 1987-07-24 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• 1987-07-25 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
• 1987-08-02 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-08-07 Lynne Cox becomes the 1st woman to swim from the US to the Soviet Union, 4.3 km across the Bering Sea in water temperature averaging 43 to 44 °F (6 to 7 °C)
• 1987-09-02 Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR
• 1987-09-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-09-18 US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles
• 1987-09-18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-10-03 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1987-10-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-11-15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-12-08 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
• 1987-12-13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1987-12-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-02-06 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-04-03 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-04-14 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
• 1988-05-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-05-07 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1988-05-15 The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan

• 1988-07-07 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon, the mission is unsuccessful
• 1988-07-12 USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
• 1988-07-14 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak
• 1988-07-29 Gorbachev pushes plan to elect a Soviet president and parliament in March 1989
• 1988-08-29 USSR launches Soyuz TM-6 including Valery Polyakav, Vladimir Lyakhov and first Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand to station Mir
• 1988-09-06 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
• 1988-09-06 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1988-09-14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-10-01 Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko retires as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
• 1988-10-01 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, effectively head of state of the Soviet Union
• 1988-10-07 Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR
• 1988-10-18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-10-26 US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
• 1988-10-29 First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
• 1988-11-03 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
• 1988-11-12 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-11-15 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
• 1988-11-30 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
• 1988-12-02 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet surrender in Israel
• 1988-12-04 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1988-12-07 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
• 1988-12-17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-12-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988-12-30 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
• 1989-01-08 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
• 1989-01-16 USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
• 1989-01-22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1989-01-23 100s feared dead after a powerful earthquake strikes the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan
• 1989-01-29 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit

• 1989-02-17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1989-03-09 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
• 1989-04-07 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
• 1989-04-17 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros
• 1989-05-15 Soviet President Gorbachev visits Beijing for the 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years
• 1989-05-16 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing and formally end a 30-year rift
• 1989-05-25 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
• 1989-06-03 Leaking pipe in Asha, USSR, causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
• 1989-06-04 Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in USSR, kills 100s
• 1989-07-08 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1989-08-23 The Baltic Way - two million people form a human chain across Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania in a peaceful pro-independence demonstration against Soviet occupation [1]

• 1989-10-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1989-10-19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1989-12-03 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
• 1990-01-20 Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku
• 1990-01-22 President Mikhail Gorbachev sends Red Troops into the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan
• 1990-01-31 1st McDonalds in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow
• 1990-02-07 USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties

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