1949
AK-47 Adopted
Sees the Soviet armed forces adopt his automatic rifle design.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Soviet Union in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Sees the Soviet armed forces adopt his automatic rifle design.
The achievement marks kalashnikov rifle as an important Russian scientific milestone.
The achievement marks mass polio immunization as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Organizes large-scale trials of the live oral poliovirus vaccine.
The Soviet military began Operation Anadyr to transport troops, missiles, aircraft, and supporting equipment to Cuba.
Announces a unilateral Soviet moratorium on nuclear testing.
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