1930 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1930 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 (until 19 December), Vyacheslav Molotov (starting 19 December)

Events

June

• 26 June – 13 July – 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

November

• 25 November – 7 December – The Industrial Party Trial is held.

Births

• 1 January – Zhanna Kolodub, Ukrainian composer and teacher (d. 2025)
• 9 January
• Pavel Kolchin, cross-country skier (d. 2010)
• Igor Netto, footballer (d. 1999)
• 14 January – Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh, Azerbaijani scientist and businessman (d. 2023)
• 26 February – Vladimir Kesarev, footballer
• 15 March – Mariya Orlyk, teacher and politician
• 10 April – Vladimir Yerokhin, footballer (d. 1996)
• 16 April – Fyodor Bogdanovsky, Olympic weightlifter
• 19 May – Leonid Kharitonov, actor
• 31 May – Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1997)
• 29 June – Anatoli Maslyonkin, footballer
• 10 July – Dmitry Oboznenko, painter
• 21 September – Sergei Popov, Olympic athlete
• 7 October – Yuri Dubinin, diplomat (d. 2013)
• 10 October – Medea Amiranashvili, Georgian soprano (d. 2023)
• 21 October – Ivan Silayev, politician (d. 2023)
• 29 December – Vladimir Ryzhkin, footballer
• 31 December – Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, actor

Deaths

• 14 April – Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet (born 1893)

See also

• 1930 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1930

References