1928 in the Soviet Union

← 1927 1926 1925 1928 in the Soviet Union → 1929 1930 1931
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1928 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

• October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented. ^[1]

May

• 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins. ^[2]

Births

• 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach
• 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania
• 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist
• 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988)
• 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021)
• 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor
• 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012)
• 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympic equestrian
• 2 July – Tatyana Piletskaya, actress
• 13 July – Valentin Pikul, novelist
• 15 July – Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 2012)
• 30 July – Valentin Muratov, Olympic gymnast
• 2 September – Muhammad Dandamayev, Babylonia historian (d. 2017)
• 22 November – Valentin Galochkin, sculptor
• 29 November – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
• 31 December – Tatyana Shmyga, actress

Deaths

• 7 April – Alexander Bogdanov, Bolshevik (born 1873) ^[3]

See also

• 1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1928
• Soviet grain procurement crisis of 1928

References

1. "The First Five Year Plan, 1928–1932". Special Collections & Archives. 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
2. Kotkin, Stephen (2014). Stalin. Vol. I, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928. London. pp. 702–705. ISBN   978-0-7139-9944-0. OCLC   896612267.
3. Huestis, Douglas W. (2007). "Alexander Bogdanov: The Forgotten Pioneer of Blood Transfusion". Transfusion Medicine Reviews. 21 (4): 337–340. doi:10.1016/j.tmrv.2007.05.008. PMID   17900494.