1961 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1961 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 - Leonid Brezhnev Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union - Nikita Khrushchev == Births == 30 March - Sergei Nozikov, former Russian professional footballer 1 June - Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary chief == Deaths == 15 July - Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b.