1934 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1934 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Decades:
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
See also:

Incumbents
  • General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
  • Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin
  • Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov

Events
  • 26 Jan–10 Feb – 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
  • 18 September – Soviet Union joins the League of Nations as a permanent Board member[1]

Undated
  • Plans for the new T-34 tank are first drawn up
  • Second Five Year plan underway

Births
  • 7 January – Viktor Pavlovich Potapov, military officer (d. 2021)
  • 2 February – Otar Iosseliani, Georgian film director (d. 2023 in Georgia)
  • 9 March – Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (d. 1968 in the Soviet Union)
  • 23 March – Ludvig Faddeev, physicist and mathematician (d. 2017)
  • 7 April – Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, historian and screenwriter (d. 2019)
  • 8 May – Anastasiya Kobzarenko, librarian
  • 29 August – Gennady Kazmin, politician (d. 2018)
  • 4 September – Eduard Khil, baritone (d. 2012)
  • 13 September – Tamara Milashkina, soprano (d. 2024)
  • 16 September – Tamara Manina, artistic gymnast
  • 8 December – Alisa Freindlich, actress

Deaths
  • 6 July – Nestor Makhno, anarchist, in exile (b. 1888)
  • 1 December – Sergei Kirov, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician, assassinated (b. 1886)

References
  1. "USSR Joins the League of Nations". League of Nations. Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

See also
  • 1934 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
  • List of Soviet films of 1934
  • T-34
  • Soviet Union
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