1931 in the Soviet Union

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← 1930 1929 1928 1931 in the Soviet Union → 1932 1933 1934
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1931 History of the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1931 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[]

March[]

• 1–8 March – The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held.

April[]

• 27 April – 1931 Zangezur earthquake

Births[]

• 1 January – Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov, Olympic shooter (died 2001)
• 17 January – Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer
• 22 January – Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete
• 1 February – Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia
• 2 March – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union
• 23 March – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Olympic skier
• 29 March – Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
• 27 April – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
• 25 May – Georgy Grechko, cosmonaut
• 25 June – Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin, mathematician
• 27 June – Anatoli Ilyin, footballer
• 24 September – Mark Midler, Olympic fencer
• 28 September – Emma Yefimova, Olympic fencer
• 1 November – Dmitri Bashkirov, pianist (died 2021)
• 21 November – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian physicist (died 1985)

Deaths[]

• 23 January – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, died in The Hague (born 1881)
• 15 August – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, first Azerbaijani nurse (born 1871 or 1878)

See also[]

• 1931 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1931

References[]