1929 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1929 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 – Alexei Rykov
Events
February
- 9 February – Litvinov's Pact is signed.[1]
- 17 February – The Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus begins.
May
- 1 May – 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake
July
- 22 July – 9 September – Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
Births
- 11 January – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect (d. 2020)[2]
- 14 January – Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball coach (d. 1999)
- 30 March – Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, mathematician (d. 2009)
- 18 May – Halyna Sevruk, artist (d. 2022)
- 21 May – Boris Seidenberg, actor
- 5 June – Sergo Mikoyan, historian
- 7 July – Yakov Lyubarsky, scholar
- 18 August – Anatoly Kuznetsov, writer
- 28 September – Nikolai Ryzhkov, politician (d. 2024)[3]
- 15 October – Nikodim, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan (d. 1978)
- 22 October – Lev Yashin, footballer
- 15 December – Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov, mathematician
- 23 December – Antonina Seredina, Olympic canoeist
Deaths
- 11 January – Yakov Slashchov, White Army general (born 1885)
- 18 March – Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist (born 1889)
- not earlier than 15 April – Panteleimon Belochub, Ukrainian soldier (born 1892)
See also
References
- ^ Marks, Sally (2003). The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe 1918-1933. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-137-12732-7.
- ^ "Dmitri Bruns". The Union of Estonian Architects. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
- ^ Former Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov Dies At 94