Geographical Location - Kazakhstan
- Andronovo Culture Rises in Central Asia
- Battle of Talas River
- Commonwealth of Independent States Faces Economic Woes
- Commonwealth of Independent States Strengthens Economic Ties
- Ethnic Strife Plagues Soviet Union
- The First Permanently Manned Space Station Is Launched
- The First Space Walk Is Conducted from Voskhod 2
- Gagarin Becomes the First Human to Orbit Earth
- Horse Is Domesticated
- An International Health Conference Adopts the Declaration of Alma-Ata
- Luna 2 Becomes the First Man-Made Object to Impact on the Moon
- Luna 3 Provides the First Views of the Far Side of the Moon
- Lunokhod 1 Lands on the Moon
- Riots in Kazakhstan
- The Soviet Luna 9 Makes the First Successful Lunar Soft Landing
- Soviet Union Launches Sputnik
- Soviet Union Puts a Human in Space
- Soviet Venera Spacecraft Transmit the First Pictures from the Surface of Venus
- The Soyuz 4 and 5 Spacecraft Dock in Orbit
- U.S.S.R. Toppled, Paving the Way for Reforms in Former Soviet Republics
- Venera 3 Is the First Spacecraft to Impact on Another Planet
