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| 1957, Feb. 11 |
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| A Jan. 9 decree provided for the rehabilitation of five minority groups: the Balkars, Chechens, Ingush, Kalmyks, and Karachais, who had been accused of disloyalty and exiled to Central Asia and Kazakhstan during World War II. | 1 |
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| Feb. 15 |
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| Foreign Minister Shepilov was replaced by Andrei Gromyko. | 2 |
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| May 7 |
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| Khrushchev presented a plan to the Supreme Soviet for a sweeping reorganization of industrial production, including the establishment of 92 economic regions. | 3 |
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| July 3 |
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| The Soviet news agency Tass reported the ouster of Molotov, Malenkov, and Kaganovich from the Central Committee and from its Presidium because of antiparty activities; Shepilov was ousted on July 4. | 4 |
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| Sept |
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| The overly optimistic sixth five-year plan was replaced by a seven-year plan (1959–65), the goals of which were to be worked out by mid-1958. | 5 |
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| Oct. 5 |
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| THE SOVIET UNION FIRED AN EARTH SATELLITE, Sputnik I, into orbit. It circled the globe at 18,000 mph. | 6 |
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| Oct. 26 |
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| Marshal Zhukov was dismissed as defense minister and succeeded by Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Later (Nov. 2) Zhukov was ousted from the Presidium and Central Committee for promoting his own “cult of personality” in the army. | 7 |
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| Nov. 3 |
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| With a live dog aboard, Sputnik II, the second earth satellite, was fired into outer space. | 8 |
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