1937 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1937 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]- January 23–30 — Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
- June — Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
- June 18–20 — The first transpolar flight and the first non-stop USSR-USA flight by the crew led by Valery Chkalov
- July 12–14 — A world-record non-stop flight, by the crew led by Mikhail Gromov, from Moscow to San Jacinto, California
- December 12 — Soviet Union legislative election, 1937
Films
[edit]- Bezhin Meadow — directed by Sergei Eisenstein
- Lullaby — directed by Dziga Vertov
- The Return of Maxim — directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
- Without Dowry — directed by Yakov Protazanov
Births
[edit]- January 2 — Marietta Chudakova, Soviet and Russian literary critic (d. 2021)
- January 12 — Mikheil Meskhi, footballer (d. 1991)
- January 20 — Mintimer Shaimiev, 1st Head of Tatarstan
- January 30 — Boris Spassky, Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
- February 16 — Yuri Manin, mathematician (d. 2023)
- February 19 — Boris Pugo, 9th Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union (d. 1991)
- February 25 — Yegor Stroyev, 2nd Chairman of the Federation Council
- February 28 — Vitaly Tulenev, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher (d. 1997)
- March 4 — Yuri Senkevich, Soviet and Russian physician and scientist (d. 2003)
- March 6 — Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
- March 15 — Valentin Rasputin, Soviet and Russian writer (d. 2015)
- March 16 — Valentina Parshina, agronomist and politician (d. 2020)[1]
- March 18 — Aleksei Zasukhin, Soviet and Russian boxer (d. 1996)
- March 23 — Boris Zaytsev, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goaltender (d. 2000)
- April 2 — Yuri Falin, Soviet and Russian football player (d. 2003)
- April 9 — Leonid Barbier, Soviet and Ukrainian swimmer (d. 2023)
- April 10 — Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet and Russian poet (d. 2010)
- April 13 — Osman Mirzayev, Head of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan (d. 1991)
- April 14 — Anatoly Lysenko, television figure, journalist, director and producer (d. 2021)
- April 24 — Galina Semenova, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2017)
- April 27 — Olga Bondareva, mathematician and economist (d. 1991)
- April 29 — Yevgeny Feofanov, boxer (d. 2000)
- May 1 — Hazret Sovmen, 2nd Head of the Republic of Adygea
- May 7 — Sergey Ling, 3rd Prime Minister of Belarus
- May 10 — Vadim Rogovin, Soviet and Russian Trotskyist historian and sociologist (d. 1998)
- May 30 — Aleksandr Demyanenko, actor (d. 1999)
- June 12 — Vladimir Arnold, mathematician (d. 2010)
- June 18 — Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet and Ukrainian cosmonaut
- July 2 — Oleg Shenin, politician (d. 2009)
- July 6 — Vladimir Ashkenazy, Soviet and Russian pianist
- July 7 — Valery Anisimov, wrestler
- July 8 — Lidia Klement, singer (d. 1964)
- July 21 — Eduard Streltsov, footballer (d. 1990)
- August 10 — Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (d. 2000)
- August 20 — Uzakbay Karamanov, last Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR (d. 2017)
- August 26 — Gennady Yanayev, Vice President of the Soviet Union (d. 2010)
- September 6 — Gennady Shpalikov, poet, screenwriter and film director (d. 1974)
- September 13 — Igor Ivanov, Acting Head of Karachay-Cherkessia (d. 2000)
- September 16 — Valentina Dimitrieva, Soviet and Russian farm worker (d. 2019)
- September 20 — Valentin Knysh, politician (d. 2022)
- September 23 — Aleksandr Medakin, Soviet and Russian football player (d. 1993)
- September 24 — Umyar Mavlikhanov, Soviet and Russian fencer (d. 1999)
- September 26 — Valentin Pavlov, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003)
- September 28 — Georgy Rerberg, Soviet and Russian cinematographer (d. 1999)
- September 30
- Yuri Maslyukov, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2010)
- Vitaliy Boiko, Soviet and Ukrainian lawyer and diplomat (d. 2020)
- October 3 — Aleksandr Kondratov, Soviet and Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet (d. 1993)
- October 8 — Eduard Rossel, 1st Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast
- October 27 — Victor Popov, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist (d. 1994)
- November 6 — Vadim Bakatin, 8th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (d. 2022)
- November 12 — Alexey Obukhov, Russian diplomat and politician (d. 2022)
- November 13 — Mikhail Nikolayev, 1st Head of the Sakha Republic (d. 2023)
- November 22 — Nikolai Kapustin, Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (d. 2020)
- November 25 — Serikbolsyn Abdildin, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan (d. 2019)
- November 26 — Boris Yegorov, Soviet and Russian physician and cosmonaut (d. 1994)
- November 29 — Ali Aliyev, Soviet and Russian freestyle wrestler (d. 1995)
- December 7 — Simon Gindikin, Russian mathematician
- December 24 — Viacheslav Chornovil, Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician (d. 1999)
Deaths
[edit]- 10 January – Martemyan Ryutin (born 1890)
- 30 January
- Georgy Pyatakov (born 1890)
- Nikolay Muralov (born 1877)
- 18 February – Grigory Ordzhonikidze (born 1886)
- 13 April – Ilya Ilf (born 1897)
- 31 May
- Yan Gamarnik (born 1894)
- Nikolai Uglanov (born 1886)
- 12 June
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky (born 1893)
- Ieronim Uborevich (born 1896)
- Iona Yakir (born 1896)
- Vitovt Putna (born 1893)
- Vitaly Primakov (born 1897)
- Robert Eideman (born 1895)
- Maria Ulyanova, younger sister of Vladimir Lenin (born 1878)
- 13 July – Mikhail Alafusov (born 1891)
- 30 October – Avel Enukidze (born 1877)
- 26 November – Leonid Veyner (born 1897)
- 28 November – Ernest Appoga (born 1898)
- Vassily Ryutin, older son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1910)
- Vissarion Ryutin, younger son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1913)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Malashenkov, Evgeny. "Паршина Валентина Романовна" [Parshina Valentina Romanovna] (in Russian). Homeland heroes. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
