1934 in the Soviet Union

← 1933 1932 1931 1934 in the Soviet Union → 1935 1936 1937
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1934 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

• January 26 – February 10 — 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
• September 18 — Soviet Union joins the League of Nations as a permanent Board member ^[1]

Undated

• Plans for the new T-34 tank are first drawn up
• Second Five Year plan underway

Births

• January 4 — Zurab Tsereteli, Georgian painter, sculptor and architect (d. 2025)
• January 7 — Viktor Pavlovich Potapov, military officer (d. 2021)
• February 1 — Marina Kondratyeva, ballerina (d. 2024)
• February 2 — Otar Iosseliani, Georgian film director (d. 2023)
• February 7 — Murtaza Rakhimov, 1st President of Bashkortostan (d. 2023)
• March 1 — Elmira Gafarova, 14th Chairwoman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan (d. 1993)
• March 9 — Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (d. 1968)
• March 12 — Vladimir Stolnikov, boxer (d. 1990)
• March 23 — Ludvig Faddeev, physicist and mathematician (d. 2017)
• April 7 — Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, historian and screenwriter (d. 2019)
• April 13 — Alexander Dzasokhov, 2nd President of North Ossetia
• May 4 — Tatiana Samoilova, actress (d. 2014)
• May 8 — Anastasiya Kobzarenko, librarian
• May 13 — Yury Morozov, football player and coach (d. 2005)
• May 14 — Nikolay Gusakov, nordic combined skier (d. 1991)
• May 29 — Nikolai Bakhvalov, mathematician (d. 2005)
• May 30 — Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut and aviator (d. 2019)
• June 14 — Viktor Bortsov, theatrical and cinema actor (d. 2008)
• June 22 — Otto Latsis, Russian journalist (d. 2005)
• July 13 — Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
• August 2 — Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (d. 2019)
• August 10 — Valeri Urin, football player and coach (d. 2023)
• August 11 — Viktor Tolmachev, engineer (d. 2018)
• August 21 — Gennadiy Aygi, Chuvash poet and translator (d. 2006)
• August 29 — Gennady Kazmin, politician (d. 2018)
• August 30 — Anatoly Solonitsyn, actor (d. 1982)
• September 1 — Mikhail Lapshin, 4th Head of the Altai Republic (d. 2006)
• September 4 — Eduard Khil, baritone (d. 2012)
• September 13 — Tamara Milashkina, soprano (d. 2024)
• September 16 — Tamara Manina, artistic gymnast
• September 19 — Apas Jumagulov, 3rd Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
• October 13 — Savely Kramarov, actor and comedian (d. 1995)
• November 9 — Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (d. 2020)
• December 3 — Viktor Gorbatko, cosmonaut (d. 2017)
• December 8 — Alisa Freindlich, actress
• December 15 — Stanislav Shushkevich, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus (d. 2022)
• December 18 — Boris Volynov, cosmonaut

Deaths

• May 10 — Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, 2nd Chairman of the OPGU (b. 1874)
• June 11 — Lev Vygotsky, psychologist (b. 1896)
• July 6 — Nestor Makhno, anarchist (b. 1888)
• July 14 — Valerian Dovgalevsky, 5th People's Commissar of the Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian SFSR (b. 1885)
• October 14 — Mikhail Matyushin, painter and composer (b. 1861)
• December 1 — Sergei Kirov, 8th First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1886)

References

1. "USSR Joins the League of Nations". League of Nations. Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

See also

• 1934 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1934
• T-34
• Soviet Union