1937 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1937 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets — Mikhail Kalinin
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union — Vyacheslav Molotov
Events
- January 23–30 — Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
- June — Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
- June 18–20 — The first transpolar flight and the first non-stop USSR-USA flight by the crew led by Valery Chkalov
- July 12–14 — A world-record non-stop flight, by the crew led by Mikhail Gromov, from Moscow to San Jacinto, California
- December 12 — Soviet Union legislative election, 1937
Films
- Bezhin Meadow — directed by Sergei Eisenstein
- Lullaby — directed by Dziga Vertov
- The Return of Maxim — directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
- Without Dowry — directed by Yakov Protazanov
Births
- January 2 — Marietta Chudakova, Soviet and Russian literary critic (d. 2021)
- January 12 — Mikheil Meskhi, footballer (d. 1991)
- January 20 — Mintimer Shaimiev, 1st Head of Tatarstan
- January 30 — Boris Spassky, Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
- February 16 — Yuri Manin, mathematician (d. 2023)
- February 19 — Boris Pugo, 9th Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union (d. 1991)
- February 25 — Yegor Stroyev, 2nd Chairman of the Federation Council
- February 28 — Vitaly Tulenev, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher (d. 1997)
- March 4 — Yuri Senkevich, Soviet and Russian physician and scientist (d. 2003)
- March 6 — Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
- March 15 — Valentin Rasputin, Soviet and Russian writer (d. 2015)
- March 16 — Valentina Parshina, agronomist and politician (d. 2020)[1]
- March 18 — Aleksei Zasukhin, Soviet and Russian boxer (d. 1996)
- March 23 — Boris Zaytsev, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goaltender (d. 2000)
- April 2 — Yuri Falin, Soviet and Russian football player (d. 2003)
- April 9 — Leonid Barbier, Soviet and Ukrainian swimmer (d. 2023)
- April 10 — Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet and Russian poet (d. 2010)
- April 13 — Osman Mirzayev, Head of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan (d. 1991)
- April 14 — Anatoly Lysenko, television figure, journalist, director and producer (d. 2021)
- April 24 — Galina Semenova, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2017)
- April 27 — Olga Bondareva, mathematician and economist (d. 1991)
- April 29 — Yevgeny Feofanov, boxer (d. 2000)
- May 1 — Hazret Sovmen, 2nd Head of the Republic of Adygea
- May 7 — Sergey Ling, 3rd Prime Minister of Belarus
- May 10 — Vadim Rogovin, Soviet and Russian Trotskyist historian and sociologist (d. 1998)
- May 30 — Aleksandr Demyanenko, actor (d. 1999)
- June 12 — Vladimir Arnold, mathematician (d. 2010)
- June 18 — Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet and Ukrainian cosmonaut
- July 2 — Oleg Shenin, politician (d. 2009)
- July 6 — Vladimir Ashkenazy, Soviet and Russian pianist
- July 7 — Valery Anisimov, wrestler
- July 8 — Lidia Klement, singer (d. 1964)
- July 21 — Eduard Streltsov, footballer (d. 1990)
- August 10 — Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (d. 2000)
- August 20 — Uzakbay Karamanov, last Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR (d. 2017)
- August 26 — Gennady Yanayev, Vice President of the Soviet Union (d. 2010)
- September 6 — Gennady Shpalikov, poet, screenwriter and film director (d. 1974)
- September 13 — Igor Ivanov, Acting Head of Karachay-Cherkessia (d. 2000)
- September 16 — Valentina Dimitrieva, Soviet and Russian farm worker (d. 2019)
- September 20 — Valentin Knysh, politician (d. 2022)
- September 23 — Aleksandr Medakin, Soviet and Russian football player (d. 1993)
- September 24 — Umyar Mavlikhanov, Soviet and Russian fencer (d. 1999)
- September 26 — Valentin Pavlov, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003)
- September 28 — Georgy Rerberg, Soviet and Russian cinematographer (d. 1999)
- September 30
- Yuri Maslyukov, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2010)
- Vitaliy Boiko, Soviet and Ukrainian lawyer and diplomat (d. 2020)
- October 3 — Aleksandr Kondratov, Soviet and Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet (d. 1993)
- October 8 — Eduard Rossel, 1st Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast
- October 27 — Victor Popov, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist (d. 1994)
- November 6 — Vadim Bakatin, 8th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (d. 2022)
- November 12 — Alexey Obukhov, Russian diplomat and politician (d. 2022)
- November 13 — Mikhail Nikolayev, 1st Head of the Sakha Republic (d. 2023)
- November 22 — Nikolai Kapustin, Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (d. 2020)
- November 25 — Serikbolsyn Abdildin, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan (d. 2019)
- November 26 — Boris Yegorov, Soviet and Russian physician and cosmonaut (d. 1994)
- November 29 — Ali Aliyev, Soviet and Russian freestyle wrestler (d. 1995)
- December 7 — Simon Gindikin, Russian mathematician
- December 24 — Viacheslav Chornovil, Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician (d. 1999)
Deaths
- January 10 — Martemyan Ryutin, Marxist activist, Bolshevik revolutionary and a political functionary of the Russian Communist Party (b. 1890)
- January 16 — Pyotr Bark, banker and government official during the Imperial Russia era (b. 1869)
- January 30
- Georgy Pyatakov, 1st First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (b. 1890)
- Nikolay Muralov, Bolshevik revolutionary leader and military commander (b. 1877)
- February 18 — Grigory Ordzhonikidze, member of the Old Bolsheviks and statesman (b. 1886)
- February 24 — Vladimir Lipsky, scientist and botanist (b. 1863)
- March 8 — Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, politician and activist (b. 1896)
- March 22 — Vladimir Maksimov, stage and silent film actor (b. 1880)
- March 29 — Feodor Koenemann, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1873)
- April 13 — Ilya Ilf, journalist and writer (b. 1897)
- May 31
- June 4 — Keke Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
- June 12
- 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)
- June 16 — Alexander Chervyakov, politician, revolutionary and founding member of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1892)
- June 27 — Sandro Akhmeteli, theater director (b. 1886)
- July 1
- Ilya Garkavy, komkor and organizer of the Red Guards detachments in Tiraspol (b. 1888)
- Matvei Vasilenko, komkor (b. 1888)
- July 3 — Boris Gorbachyov, komkor (b. 1892)
- July 13
- Mikhail Alafusov, general (b. 1891)
- Mykhailo Boychuk, monumentalist and modernist painter (b. 1882)
- July 16 — Vladimir Kirillov, poet (b. 1889)
- July 18 — Grigol Giorgadze, historian, jurist and politician (b. 1879)
- July 22 — Paolo Iashvili, poet and one of the leading members of the Georgian symbolist movement (b. 1894)
- August 13 — Sigizmund Levanevsky, pioneer of long-range flight (b. 1902)
- August 19
- Alexander Hotovitzky, Russian Orthodox priest and missionary (b. 1872)
- Ivan Kataev, novelist, short story writer and journalist (b. 1902)
- September 9 — Mikhail Diterikhs, general in the Imperial Russian Army and key figure in the White movement (b. 1874)
- September 20 — Lev Karakhan, revolutionary and diplomat (b. 1889)
- September 27 — Alikhan Bukeikhanov, politician, statesman and journalist (b. 1866)
- October 10 — Peter of Krutitsy, Russian Orthodox priest and metropolitan (b. 1862)
- October 23 — Nikolai Klyuev, poet (b. 1884)
- October 30
- 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)
- November 10 — Nikolai Batalov, stage and film actor (b. 1899)
- November 20 — Joseph Petrovykh, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and spiritual writer (b. 1872)
- November 25 — Aleksandr Glagolev, Russian Orthodox priest (b. 1872)
- November 26 — Leonid Veyner, general (b. 1897)
- November 27
- Vsevolod Balitsky, official (b. 1892)
- Vasyl Lypkivsky, Russian Orthodox priest and metropolitan (b. 1864)
- November 28 — Ernest Appoga, general and revolutionary (b. 1898)
- December 8 — Ahmet Baitursynuly, intellectual (b. 1872)
- December 16 — Giorgi Mazniashvili, general and military leader of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (b. 1871)
- December 21 — 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)
See also
References
- ^ Malashenkov, Evgeny. "Паршина Валентина Романовна" [Parshina Valentina Romanovna] (in Russian). Homeland heroes. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.