1932 in the Soviet Union

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← 1931 1930 1929 1932 in the Soviet Union → 1933 1934 1935
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1932 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

• 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

• Soviet famine of 1932–33

• 21 January – The Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

• 25 July – The Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

• 7 August – The Law of Spikelets is enacted.

• 23 September – Ryutin Affair: Martemyan Ryutin and others in the Union of Marxists-Leninists are arrested.

• 3 January – Valentina Gaganova, textile worker and politician (died 2010).^[1]
• 4 January – Roman Personov, scientist (died 2002)
• 10 January – Iskra Babich, film director
• 25 January – Nikolay Anikin, skier
• 27 January
  • Rimma Kazakova, poet
  • Boris Shakhlin, Olympic gymnast
• 22 February – Victor Cherkashin, KGB counter-intelligence officer
• 3 May – Maria Itkina, Olympic sprinter (died 2020)
• 15 May – Arkady Volsky, politician
• 6 June – Tamara Novikova, female cyclist
• 13 June – Boris Katalimov, Chess International Master
• 2 August – Vladimir Struzhanov, swimmer
• 20 August – Vasily Aksyonov, novelist
• 18 September – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut

• 1932 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1932