1934 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1934 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
Events
- January 26 â February 10 â 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- September 18 â Soviet Union joins the League of Nations as a permanent Board member[1]
Undated
- Plans for the new T-34 tank are first drawn up
- Second Five Year plan underway
Births
- January 4 â Zurab Tsereteli, Georgian painter, sculptor and architect (d. 2025)
- January 7 â Viktor Pavlovich Potapov, military officer (d. 2021)
- February 1 â Marina Kondratyeva, ballerina (d. 2024)
- February 2 â Otar Iosseliani, Georgian film director (d. 2023)
- February 7 â Murtaza Rakhimov, 1st President of Bashkortostan (d. 2023)
- March 1 â Elmira Gafarova, 14th Chairwoman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan (d. 1993)
- March 9 â Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (d. 1968)
- March 12 â Vladimir Stolnikov, boxer (d. 1990)
- March 23 â Ludvig Faddeev, physicist and mathematician (d. 2017)
- April 3 â Alexander Dzasokhov, 2nd President of North Ossetia
- April 7 â Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, historian and screenwriter (d. 2019)
- May 4 â Tatiana Samoilova, actress (d. 2014)
- May 8 â Anastasiya Kobzarenko, librarian
- May 13 â Yury Morozov, football player and coach (d. 2005)
- May 14 â Nikolay Gusakov, nordic combined skier (d. 1991)
- May 29 â Nikolai Bakhvalov, mathematician (d. 2005)
- May 30 â Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut and aviator (d. 2019)
- June 6 â Yuri Korolev, ice hockey administrator and coach (d. 2026)
- June 14 â Viktor Bortsov, theatrical and cinema actor (d. 2008)
- June 22 â Otto Latsis, Russian journalist (d. 2005)
- July 13 â Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
- August 2 â Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (d. 2019)
- August 10 â Valeri Urin, football player and coach (d. 2023)
- August 11 â Viktor Tolmachev, engineer (d. 2018)
- August 21 â Gennadiy Aygi, Chuvash poet and translator (d. 2006)
- August 29 â Gennady Kazmin, politician (d. 2018)
- August 30 â Anatoly Solonitsyn, actor (d. 1982)
- September 1 â Mikhail Lapshin, 4th Head of the Altai Republic (d. 2006)
- September 4 â Eduard Khil, baritone (d. 2012)
- September 13 â Tamara Milashkina, soprano (d. 2024)
- September 16 â Tamara Manina, artistic gymnast
- September 19 â Apas Jumagulov, 3rd Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
- October 13 â Savely Kramarov, actor and comedian (d. 1995)
- November 9 â Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (d. 2020)
- December 3 â Viktor Gorbatko, cosmonaut (d. 2017)
- December 8 â Alisa Freindlich, actress
- December 15 â Stanislav Shushkevich, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus (d. 2022)
- December 18 â Boris Volynov, cosmonaut
Deaths
- May 10 â Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, 2nd Chairman of the OPGU (b. 1874)
- June 11 â Lev Vygotsky, psychologist (b. 1896)
- July 6 â Nestor Makhno, anarchist (b. 1888)
- July 14 â Valerian Dovgalevsky, 5th People's Commissar of the Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian SFSR (b. 1885)
- October 14 â Mikhail Matyushin, painter and composer (b. 1861)
- December 1 â Sergei Kirov, 8th First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1886)