1933 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1933 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union â Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets â Mikhail Kalinin
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union â Vyacheslav Molotov
- People's Commissar for military and naval affairs- Kliment Voroshilov
- People's Commissar for heavy industry- Sergo Ordzhonikidze
- People's Commissar for Ways of Communication- Andrey Andreyev
- First Secretary of Moscow urban committee of AUCP(b) - Lazar Kaganovich
Events
- 2 August - White SeaâBaltic Canal opened.
- 5 September - Tupolev ANT-7 crash near Podolsk, which led to a complete reorganization of air traffic in the Soviet Union.
Undated
- Second Five Year Plan Begins
- The Holodomor famine takes place in Ukraine.
- Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.[1]
Ongoing
Births
- 4 January â Ilia II of Georgia, Georgian Orthodox patriarach (died 2026)
- 6 January â Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (died 2003)
- 15 April - Boris Strugatsky, writer (died 2012)
- 27 April - Leonid Roshal, pediatrician
- 28 April â Dmitry Zimin, radio scientist and businessman (died 2021)
- 12 May - Andrei Voznesensky, poet (died 2010)
- 20 May â Zoya Klyuchko, entomologist (died 2016)
- 19 June â Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (died 1971)
- 9 July - Elem Klimov, filmmaker (died 2003)
- 10 September â Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (died 2000)
- 13 October - Mark Zakharov, filmmaker (died 2019)
Deaths
- 1 March â UÅadzimir Zylka, poet
- 7 July â Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian communist leader
- 20 August - Vasily Boldyrev, WWI and Russian Civil War commander
- 8 October - Leonid Vesnin, architect