1926 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1926 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
Events
January
- 29 January â Soviet law changes and the size of inheritable estates becomes effectively unlimited.[1]
April
- 24 April â The Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed.
July
- July â The "Declaration of the 13" was written by Kamenev, Krupskaya, Trotsky, Zinoviev, along with 9 other contributors. The declaration was a denouncement of the economic policies of the left and the attacks on freedom the writers felt would lead to the destruction of the Bolshevik Revolution.[2]
December
- December â The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union is conducted.
Births
- 11 January â Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut
- 20 January â Vitaly Vorotnikov, statesman
- 31 January â Lev Russov, painter
- 7 February
- Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
- Mark Taimanov, pianist
- 10 March â Ivan Filin, Olympic athlete
- 24 March â Engels Kozlov, painter
- 3 April â Valentin Falin, diplomat and politician (died 2018)
- 10 April â Valeria Larina, painter
- 26 April â Yefrem Sokolov, politician (died in 2022)
- 22 May â Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player
- 1 June â Aleksandr Anufriyev, Olympic athlete
- 23 September â Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player
- 25 September â Sergei Filatov, Olympic equestrian
- 8 October â Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko, psychiatrist
- 20 October â Gennadi Kryuchkov, Russian Baptist minister
- 31 October â Saima Karimova, Russian geologist (died 2013)[3]
- 10 December â Nikolai Tishchenko, footballer
Deaths
- 5 February - Theodor Nette, Soviet diplomatic courier of NKID (born 1896)
- 20 July - Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician (born 1877)
- 24 November â Leonid Krasin, politician (born 1870)
- 17 March - Aleksei Brusilov, General during WW1 and the Russian Civil War (born 1853)
