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The following lists events that happened during 1942 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
Births
- January 1
- Gennady Sarafanov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2005)
- Sergey Shakurov, Soviet and Russian theater actor
- January 5 — Giorgi Arsenishvili, 3rd State Minister of Georgia (d. 2010)
- January 7
- Svetlana Savyolova, Soviet and Russian film and stage actress (d. 1999)
- Vasily Alekseyev, weightlifter (d. 2011)
- January 24 — Valery Obodzinsky, Soviet and Russian tenor (d. 1997)
- February 3 — Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, 8th Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (d. 2020)
- February 10 — Anatolijs Gorbunovs, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Latvia
- March 11 — Aslambek Aslakhanov, Deputy of the State Duma (d. 2024)
- April 11 — Anatoly Berezovoy, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)
- April 14
- Valeriy Brumel, Soviet and Russian high jumper (d. 2003)
- Valentin Lebedev, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
- April 27 — Valeri Polyakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2022)
- April 29 — Galina Kulakova, Soviet and Russian cross-country skier
- May 13 — Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
- May 25 — Alexander Kalyagin, Soviet and Russian actor and director
- June 2 — Eduard Malofeyev, Soviet and Belarusian footballer and coach
- July 10 — Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet and Belarusian cosmonaut
- July 16 — Victor Kalashnikov, Russian small arms designer (d. 2018)
- July 28 — Valdis Birkavs, 11th Prime Minister of Latvia
- August 17 — Muslim Magomayev, Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian opera and pop singer (d. 2008)
- August 25 — Margarita Terekhova, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress
- October 8 — Ismat Gayibov, 1st Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan (d. 1991)
- October 11 — Anatoly Tyazhlov, 1st Governor of Moscow Oblast (d. 2008)
- October 15 — Tursunbek Chyngyshev, 2nd Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
- October 26 — Vladimir Yermoshin, 4th Prime Minister of Belarus
- October 30 — Eduard Vinokurov, Soviet and Russian Olympic sabre fencer (d. 2010)
- November 21 — Liudmyla Sheremet, Ukrainian anesthesiologist (d. 2014)[1]
- November 22 — Ruslan Khasbulatov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation (d. 2023)
- December 30 — Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet and Russian human rights activist and writer (d. 2019)
Deaths
- 14 February – Matvey Kuzmin
- 14 August – Sabina Spielrein
See also
References
- ^ "Шеремет Людмила Олександрівна (21.11.1942 – 22.02.2014)" [Sheremet Lyudmila Oleksandrivna (November 21, 1942 - February 22, 2014)] (in Ukrainian). Heroes of Ukraine. Retrieved 1 July 2022.