1929 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1929 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
Events
February
- 9 February â Litvinov's Pact is signed.[1]
- 17 February â The Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus begins.
May
- 1 May â 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake
July
- 22 July â 9 September â Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
Births
- 11 January â Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect (d. 2020)[2]
- 14 January â Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball coach (d. 1999)
- 23 January â Filaret Denysenko, Ukrainian religious leader (d. 2026)
- 30 March â Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, mathematician (d. 2009)
- 18 May â Halyna Sevruk, artist (d. 2022)
- 21 May â Boris Seidenberg, actor
- 5 June â Sergo Mikoyan, historian
- 7 July â Yakov Lyubarsky, scholar
- 18 August â Anatoly Kuznetsov, writer
- 23 September â Viktor Sarianidi, archaeologist (d. 2013)
- 28 September â Nikolai Ryzhkov, politician (d. 2024)[3]
- 15 October â Nikodim, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan (d. 1978)
- 22 October â Lev Yashin, footballer
- 15 December â Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov, mathematician
- 23 December â Antonina Seredina, Olympic canoeist
Deaths
- 11 January â Yakov Slashchov, White Army general (born 1885)
- 18 March â Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist (born 1889)
- not earlier than 15 April â Panteleimon Belochub, Ukrainian soldier (born 1892)