1937 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1937 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
Events
- 23â30 January â Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center[citation needed]
- June â Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
- 18â20 June â The first transpolar flight and the first non-stop USSR-USA flight by the crew led by Valery Chkalov
- 12â14 July â A world-record non-stop flight, by the crew led by Mikhail Gromov, from Moscow to San Jacinto, California
- 12 December â Soviet Union legislative election, 1937
Films
- Bezhin Meadow â directed by Sergei Eisenstein
- Lullaby â directed by Dziga Vertov
- The Return of Maxim â directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
- Without Dowry â directed by Yakov Protazanov
Births
- 2 January â Marietta Chudakova, Soviet and Russian literary critic (d. 2021)
- 12 January â Mikheil Meskhi, footballer (d. 1991)
- 20 January â Mintimer Shaimiev, 1st Head of Tatarstan
- 30 January â Boris Spassky, Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
- 16 February â Yuri Manin, mathematician (d. 2023)
- 19 February â Boris Pugo, 9th Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union (d. 1991)
- 25 February â Yegor Stroyev, 2nd Chairman of the Federation Council
- 28 February â Vitaly Tulenev, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher (d. 1997)
- 4 March â Yuri Senkevich, Soviet and Russian physician and scientist (d. 2003)
- 6 March â Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
- 15 March â Valentin Rasputin, Soviet and Russian writer (d. 2015)
- 16 March â Valentina Parshina, agronomist and politician (d. 2020)[1]
- 18 March â Aleksei Zasukhin, Soviet and Russian boxer (d. 1996)
- 23 March â Boris Zaytsev, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goaltender (d. 2000)
- 2 April â Yuri Falin, Soviet and Russian football player (d. 2003)
- 9 April â Leonid Barbier, Soviet and Ukrainian swimmer (d. 2023)
- 10 April â Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet and Russian poet (d. 2010)
- 13 April â Osman Mirzayev, Head of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan (d. 1991)
- 14 April â Anatoly Lysenko, television figure, journalist, director and producer (d. 2021)
- 24 April â Galina Semenova, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2017)
- 27 April â Olga Bondareva, mathematician and economist (d. 1991)
- 29 April â Yevgeny Feofanov, boxer (d. 2000)
- 1 May â Hazret Sovmen, 2nd Head of the Republic of Adygea
- 7 May â Sergey Ling, 3rd Prime Minister of Belarus
- 10 May â Vadim Rogovin, Soviet and Russian Trotskyist historian and sociologist (d. 1998)
- 30 May â Aleksandr Demyanenko, actor (d. 1999)
- 12 June â Vladimir Arnold, mathematician (d. 2010)
- 18 June â Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet and Ukrainian cosmonaut
- 2 July â Oleg Shenin, politician (d. 2009)
- 6 July â Vladimir Ashkenazy, Soviet and Russian pianist
- 7 July â Valery Anisimov, wrestler
- 8 July â Lidia Klement, singer (d. 1964)
- 21 July â Eduard Streltsov, footballer (d. 1990)
- 10 August â Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (d. 2000)
- 20 August â Uzakbay Karamanov, last Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR (d. 2017)
- 26 August â Gennady Yanayev, Vice President of the Soviet Union (d. 2010)
- 6 September â Gennady Shpalikov, poet, screenwriter and film director (d. 1974)
- 13 September â Igor Ivanov, Acting Head of Karachay-Cherkessia (d. 2000)
- 16 September â Valentina Dimitrieva, Soviet and Russian farm worker (d. 2019)
- 20 September â Valentin Knysh, politician (d. 2022)
- 23 September â Aleksandr Medakin, Soviet and Russian football player (d. 1993)
- 24 September â Umyar Mavlikhanov, Soviet and Russian fencer (d. 1999)
- 26 September â Valentin Pavlov, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003)
- 28 September â Georgy Rerberg, Soviet and Russian cinematographer (d. 1999)
- 30 September
- Yuri Maslyukov, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2010)
- Vitaliy Boiko, Soviet and Ukrainian lawyer and diplomat (d. 2020)
- 3 October â Aleksandr Kondratov, Soviet and Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet (d. 1993)
- 8 October â Eduard Rossel, 1st Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast
- 27 October â Victor Popov, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist (d. 1994)
- 6 November â Vadim Bakatin, 8th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (d. 2022)
- 12 November â Alexey Obukhov, Russian diplomat and politician (d. 2022)
- 13 November â Mikhail Nikolayev, 1st Head of the Sakha Republic (d. 2023)
- 22 November â Nikolai Kapustin, Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (d. 2020)
- 25 November â Serikbolsyn Abdildin, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan (d. 2019)
- 26 November â Boris Yegorov, Soviet and Russian physician and cosmonaut (d. 1994)
- 29 November â Ali Aliyev, Soviet and Russian freestyle wrestler (d. 1995)
- 7 December â Simon Gindikin, Russian mathematician
- 24 December â Viacheslav Chornovil, Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician (d. 1999)
Deaths
- 10 January â Martemyan Ryutin, Marxist activist, Bolshevik revolutionary and a political functionary of the Russian Communist Party (b. 1890)
- 16 January â Pyotr Bark, banker and government official during the Imperial Russia era (b. 1869)
- 30 January
- Georgy Pyatakov, 1st First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (b. 1890)
- Nikolay Muralov, Bolshevik revolutionary leader and military commander (b. 1877)
- 18 February â Grigory Ordzhonikidze, member of the Old Bolsheviks and statesman (b. 1886)
- 24 February â Vladimir Lipsky, scientist and botanist (b. 1863)
- 8 March â Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, politician and activist (b. 1896)
- 22 March â Vladimir Maksimov, stage and silent film actor (b. 1880)
- 29 March â Feodor Koenemann, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1873)
- 13 April â Ilya Ilf, journalist and writer (b. 1897)
- 31 May
- 4 June â Keke Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
- 12 June
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky, prominent general (b. 1893)
- Ieronim Uborevich, military commander (b. 1896)
- Iona Yakir, army commander (b. 1896)
- Vitovt Putna, Red Army officer (b. 1893)
- Vitaly Primakov, revolutionary, military leader and commander of the Red Cossacks (b. 1897)
- Robert Eideman, komkor, writer and poet (b. 1895)
- Maria Ulyanova, revolutionary, politician and younger sister of Vladimir Lenin (b. 1878)
- 16 June â Alexander Chervyakov, politician, revolutionary and founding member of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1892)
- 27 June â Sandro Akhmeteli, theater director (b. 1886)
- 1 July
- Ilya Garkavy, komkor and organizer of the Red Guards detachments in Tiraspol (b. 1888)
- Matvei Vasilenko, komkor (b. 1888)
- 3 July â Boris Gorbachyov, komkor (b. 1892)
- 13 July
- Mikhail Alafusov, general (b. 1891)
- Mykhailo Boychuk, monumentalist and modernist painter (b. 1882)
- 16 July â Vladimir Kirillov, poet (b. 1889)
- 18 July â Grigol Giorgadze, historian, jurist and politician (b. 1879)
- 22 July â Paolo Iashvili, poet and one of the leading members of the Georgian symbolist movement (b. 1894)
- 13 August â Sigizmund Levanevsky, pioneer of long-range flight (b. 1902)
- 19 August
- Alexander Hotovitzky, Russian Orthodox priest and missionary (b. 1872)
- Ivan Kataev, novelist, short story writer and journalist (b. 1902)
- 9 September â Mikhail Diterikhs, general in the Imperial Russian Army and key figure in the White movement (b. 1874)
- 20 September â Lev Karakhan, revolutionary and diplomat (b. 1889)
- 27 September â Alikhan Bukeikhanov, politician, statesman and journalist (b. 1866)
- 10 October â Peter of Krutitsy, Russian Orthodox priest and metropolitan (b. 1862)
- 23 October â Nikolai Klyuev, poet (b. 1884)
- 30 October
- Avel Enukidze, member of the Old Bolsheviks (b. 1877)
- Ivan Zhukov, politician and statesman (b. 1889)
- Mendel Khatayevich, politician and one of the main organizers of Collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1893)
- 10 November â Nikolai Batalov, stage and film actor (b. 1899)
- 20 November â Joseph Petrovykh, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and spiritual writer (b. 1872)
- 25 November â Aleksandr Glagolev, Russian Orthodox priest (b. 1872)
- 26 November â Leonid Veyner, general (b. 1897)
- 27 November
- Vsevolod Balitsky, official (b. 1892)
- Vasyl Lypkivsky, Russian Orthodox priest and metropolitan (b. 1864)
- 28 November â Ernest Appoga, general and revolutionary (b. 1898)
- 8 December â Ahmet Baitursynuly, intellectual (b. 1872)
- 16 December â Giorgi Mazniashvili, general and military leader of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (b. 1871)
- 21 December â Meliton Balanchivadze, opera singer and composer (b. 1862)
Dates unknown
- Vassily Ryutin, older son of Martemyan Ryutin (b. 1910)
- Vissarion Ryutin, younger son of Martemyan Ryutin (b. 1913)