1936 in the Soviet Union
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See also: | Other events of 1936 History of the Soviet Union |
The following lists events that happened during 1936 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[]
- August 19–24 – Trial of the Sixteen
Undated[]
- Stalin's Great Purges begin.
- Second Five-Year Plan underway
Films[]
- 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[]
- 2 June - Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
- 7 July - Anatoly Kirov, Russian wrestler
- 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)
Deaths[]
- August 22 – Mikhail Tomsky
- August 25 – Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov
References[]
See also[]
- 1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
- History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)
- List of Soviet films of 1936
- Purges
- Soviet Union
Categories:
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- 1930s in the Soviet Union