1936 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1936 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
Events
- August 19â24 â Trial of the Sixteen[1]
Undated
- Stalin's Great Purges begin.
- Second Five-Year Plan underway
Films
- By the Bluest of Seas â directed by Boris Barnet
- Circus â directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
- Girl Friends â directed by Lev Arnshtam
Births
- 28 January - Bernara Karieva, Uzbekistani ballerina[2]
- 2 June - Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
- 15 June - Roman Kofman, Ukrainian musician (d. 2026)
- 22 June - Izatullo Khayoyev, 1st Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
- 7 July - Anatoly Kirov, Russian wrestler
- 17 July - Shota Shamatava, politician (d. 2013)
- 31 August â Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist (d. 2018)
- 1 September - Valery Legasov, Russian chemist (d. 1988)
- 21 September - Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019)
- 8 October - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022)
- 30 October
- Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
- Margarita Voites, Estonian soprano (d. 2024)
Deaths
- August 22 â Mikhail Tomsky
- August 25 â Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov