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The following lists events that happened during 1949 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 25 January – The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON) is established by the Soviet Union and other communist nations.
 - c. 29 January – Stalin and antisemitism: The Soviet media resume a savage propaganda campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans", a euphemism for Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist
 
March
- 25–28 March – Operation Priboi
 
May
- 12 May – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade
 
July
- 10 July – 1949 Khait earthquake
 
August
- 29 August – The atomic bomb RDS-1 is exploded in the first Soviet nuclear test
 
September
- 13 September – The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal
 
October
- 2 October – The Soviet Union recognizes the People's Republic of China, proclaimed on the previous day
 
November
- 7 November – Oil is discovered beneath the Caspian Sea, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
 
December

Stalin's 70th Birthday
- 21 December – Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday is celebrated in Moscow
 - 25–31 December – Khabarovsk War Crime Trials
 
Births
- 29 January – Evgeny Lovchev, footballer
 - 25 February – Viktor Klimenko, Olympic gymnast
 - 26 February – Viktor Ulyanich, boxer
 - 17 March – Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter
 - 12 June – Yuri Baturin, cosmonaut
 - 3 July – Aleksandr Salnikov, basketball player
 - 3 August – Valeri Vasiliev, hockey player
 - 18 September – Gennady Komnatov, cyclist
 - 23 September – Elena Guskova, historian
 - 2 October – Alexander Aksinin, painter
 - 28 October – Volodymyr Onyshchenko, footballer
 - 21 November
- Elena Mikhailovskaya, female draughts player
 - Anatoliy Kuksov, footballer
 
 - 23 November – Viktor Poganovsky, Olympic equestrian
 
See also
References
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