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The following lists events that happened during 1945 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
Events
Moscow Victory Parade of 1945, June 24.
- January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army. [1]
- January 13 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces in East Prussia.
- January 17 – WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.
- May 2 – WWII: The Soviet Union captures and occupies Berlin, Germany.
- May 9 – Joseph Stalin declares victory over Nazi Germany during a speech broadcast on radio.
- June 24 – Moscow Victory Parade
- August 9 – WWII: The Soviet Union declared war on Japan shortly after the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Births
- 13 March – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
- 31 March – Lidiya Belozyorova, Ukrainian actress (d. 2022)
- 9 August – Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player (d. 2004)
- 3 October – Viktor Saneyev, Georgian triple jumper, Olympic champion (d. 2022)
Deaths
- 6 January – Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist and geochemist (b. 1863)
- 18 February – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, general (b. 1907)
- 23 February – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, writer (b. 1883)
- 3 March – Aleksandra Samusenko, WWII tank commander (b. 1922)
- 26 March – Boris Shaposhnikov, military leader (b. 1882)
- 7 May – Vladimir Boyarsky, army officer (b. 1901)
- 10 May – Aleksandr Shcherbakov, First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1938-1945) (b. 1901)
- 16 June – Nikolai Berzarin, Red Army general (b. 1904)
- 30 June – Gabriel El-Registan, poet (b. 1899)
- 12 July – Boris Galerkin, mathematician (b. 1871)
See also
References
- ^ Duffy, C. Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945 Routledge 1991 ISBN 0-415-22829-8. Page 67
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