1936 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1936 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
[edit]- 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
[edit]- August 19–24 – Trial of the Sixteen[1]
Undated
[edit]- Stalin's Great Purges begin.
- Second Five-Year Plan underway
Films
[edit]- By the Bluest of Seas – directed by Boris Barnet
- Circus – directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
- Girl Friends – directed by Lev Arnshtam
Publications
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Births
[edit]- 28 January - Bernara Karieva, Uzbekistani ballerina[2]
- 2 June - Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
- 7 July - Anatoly Kirov, Russian wrestler
- 17 July - Shota Shamatava, politician (d. 2013)
- 31 August – 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
[edit]- August 22 – Mikhail Tomsky
- August 25 – Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov
See also
[edit]- 1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
- History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)
- List of Soviet films of 1936
- Purges
- Soviet Union
References
[edit]- ^ Conquest, Robert (1990), The Great Terror: A Reassessment. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195071328. p. 91.
- ^ "Karieva, Bernara Rakhimovna". Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022 – via The Free Library.
