1931 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
Events
March
- 1â8 March â The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held.[1]
April
- 27 April â 1931 Zangezur earthquake[2]
Births
- 1 January â Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov, Olympic shooter (died 2001)
- 17 January â Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer (died 2013)
- 21 January â Tatjana Michaylovna Zacharova, production worker, author and politician
- 22 January â Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete (died 2024)
- 1 February â Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia (died 2007)
- 2 March â Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union (died 2022)
- 13 March â Alisa Aksyonova, museum director
- 23 March â Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Olympic skier
- 29 March â Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
- 7 April â Lyubov Vorona, Ukrainian farm worker and politician (died 2021)
- 27 April â Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
- 25 May â Georgy Grechko, cosmonaut
- 25 June â Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin, mathematician
- 27 June â Anatoli Ilyin, footballer
- 24 September â Mark Midler, Olympic fencer
- 28 September â Emma Yefimova, Olympic fencer
- 24 October â Sofia Gubaidulina, composer (died 2025)
- 1 November â Dmitri Bashkirov, pianist (died 2021)
- 21 November â Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian physicist (died 1985)
Deaths
- 23 January â Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, died in The Hague (born 1881)
- 15 August â Nigar Shikhlinskaya, first Azerbaijani nurse (born 1871 or 1878)[3]