1933 in the Soviet Union

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History of the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1933 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
  • 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

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.

Undated[]

  • Second Five Year Plan Begins
  • The Holodomor famine takes place in the Ukraine.
  • 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 The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.[1]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[]

Births[]

  • 6 January – Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut
  • 15 April - Boris Strugatsky, writer
  • 27 April - Leonid Roshal, pediatrician
  • 28 April – Dmitry Zimin, radio scientist and businessman (died 2021)
  • 12 May - Andrei Voznesensky, poet
  • 19 June – Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
  • 9 July - Elem Klimov, filmmaker
  • 10 September – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
  • 13 October - Mark Zakharov, filmmaker

Deaths[]

  • 1 March – Uładzimir Zylka, poet
  • 7 July – Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian communist leader
  • 20 August - Vasily Boldyrev, WWI and Russian Civil War commander
  • 8 October - Leonid Vesnin, architect

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. "Refworld – Russia: Update to RUS13194 of 16 February 1993 on the treatment of homosexuals". Refworld. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
    - "Anne Buetikofer – Homosexuality in the Soviet Union and in today's Russia". Savanne.ch. 11 April 1999. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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