Soviet History Timeline (Part 7)

Events 1201 - 1,263 of 1,263

• 1990-02-26 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991

• 1990-07-25 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
• 1990-08-30 Tatarstan announces its sovereignty with the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1990-09-12 US, United Kingdom, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
• 1990-09-17 Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
• 1990-09-24 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
• 1990-10-15 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1990-10-24 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1990-10-27 Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
• 1990-11-20 Soviet Union shows reluctance to endorse the use of force against Iraq
• 1990-12-04 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages

• 1991-01-01 5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR
• 1991-01-03 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years
• 1991-01-11 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
• 1991-01-13 Soviet troops continue attack on Vilnius, capital of Lithuania; 13 people killed and 140 injured as
• 1991-01-14 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
• 1991-02-10 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
• 1991-02-21 USSR announces that Iraq has agreed to a proposal to end the Gulf War, but the US calls the plan unacceptable
• 1991-03-03 Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
• 1991-03-17 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
• 1991-03-19 Gorbachev says the Soviet Union will cut its oil exports by nearly half
• 1991-03-31 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
• 1991-03-31 Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
• 1991-04-09 Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
• 1991-04-23 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
• 1991-05-18 USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
• 1991-05-20 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
• 1991-06-04 Robert S Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
• 1991-06-12 Boris Yeltsin wins Russia's first presidential election with 57% of the vote
• 1991-07-31 The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other
• 1991-08-19 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état
• 1991-08-20 Estonia formally declares its independence from the USSR
• 1991-08-21 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days
• 1991-08-21 Latvia declares its independence from USSR
• 1991-08-24 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
• 1991-08-24 Ukraine declares independence from USSR
• 1991-08-25 Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic republics
• 1991-08-27 Moldavia declares independence from USSR

• 1991-08-29 USSR suspends Communist Party activities
• 1991-08-31 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union following the failed coup in Moscow
• 1991-09-06 USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania)
• 1991-09-21 Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union
• 1991-10-01 Soviet Union suspends petroleum product exports as its fuel shortages grow
• 1991-10-05 USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
• 1991-12-21 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming the Commonwealth of Independent States
• 1991-12-25 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech
• 1992-01-01 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is renamed the Russian Federation, becoming the successor state to the Soviet Union.
• 1992-03-14 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
• 1992-04-01 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
• 1992-08-01 USA/USSR Around the World Air Race begins in Santa Monica
• 1992-10-25 Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
• 1993-09-22 Supreme Soviet dismisses President Boris Yeltsin

• 2005-11-25 Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians showing maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, including the nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities by Soviet-controlled forces.
• 2006-11-12 Former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a second referendum on independence from Georgia
• 2007-04-27 Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
• 2019-03-19 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announces his resignation after nearly 30 years in office, the last soviet-era head of state

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