1957 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1957 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. == Incumbents == First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Bulganin == Events == 1957 Soviet nuclear tests Doctor Zhivago (novel) is published in Italy by Boris Pasternak after being rejected by Soviet censors.