1933 in Russia

Events from the year 1933 in Russia

Incumbents[]

Soviet Union[]

• De-facto leader - Joseph Stalin
• Chairman of All-Union Central Executive Committee (de-jure head of state) - Mikhail Kalinin
• Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (prime minister) - Vyacheslav Molotov
• People's commissar for military and naval affairs- Kliment Voroshilov
• People's commissar for heavy industry- Sergo Ordzhonikidze
• People's Commissar for Ways of Communication- Andrey Andreyev
• First Secretary of Moscow urban committee of AUCP(b) - Lazar Kaganovich

Russia[]

• Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee - Mikhail Kalinin
• Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Daniil Sulimov

Events[]

• 2 August - White Sea–Baltic Canal opened.
• 5 September - Tupolev ANT-7 crash near Podolsk, which led to a complete reorganization of air traffic in the Soviet Union.
• In 1933, Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.^[1]

Ongoing[]

• Soviet famine of 1932–1933

Births[]

• 15 April - Boris Strugatsky, writer
• 27 April - Leonid Roshal, pediatrician
• 12 May - Andrei Voznesensky, poet
• 19 June - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
• 9 July - Elem Klimov, filmmaker
• 13 October - Mark Zakharov, filmmaker

Deaths[]

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• 20 August - Vasily Boldyrev, WWI and Russian Civil War commander
• 8 October - Leonid Vesnin, architect

References[]

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