1939 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1939 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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  • 1940
  • 1941
  • 1942
Decades:
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
See also:

Incumbents
  • General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
  • Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin
  • Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov

Events
  • March 10–21 – 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
  • May 11 – September 16 – Battles of Khalkhin Gol
  • August 19 – German–Soviet Credit Agreement (1939)
  • August 23 – Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
  • September 17-October 6 – Soviet invasion of Poland
  • September 28 – Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty, also amendment to the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty
  • October 5 – Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty
  • October 10 – Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty
  • November 26 – Shelling of Mainila

Births
  • May 19 – Kateryna Boloshkevich, Ukrainian weaver and statesperson (d. 2018)
  • August 16 – Valery Ryumin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2022)
  • September 7 – Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Defence Forces official
  • September 17 – Vladimir Menshov, actor and film director (d. 2021)

Deaths
  • February 2 – Vladimir Shukhov, engineer.
  • February 22 – Grigory Khakhanyan, corps commander.
  • February 23
    • Pyotr Smirnov, naval officer and politician.
    • Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, army officer.
  • February 26
    • Stanislav Kosior, politician.
    • Vlas Chubar, politician.
    • Pavel Postyshev, politician.
    • Ivan Fedko, army officer.
  • March 3 – Georgy Bazilevich, corps commander.
  • March 7 – Matvei Berman, security officer.
  • March 10 – Georgy Bondar, corps commander.
  • April 1 – Anton Makarenko, educator and writer.
  • May 19 – Karl Radek, politician.
  • May 21 – Grigori Sokolnikov, economist and politician.
  • September 11 – Konstantin Korovin, painter.

See also
  • 1939 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
  • List of Soviet films of 1939
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