1933 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1933 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
• People's Commissar for military and naval affairs- Kliment Voroshilov
• People's Commissar for heavy industry- Sergo Ordzhonikidze
• People's Commissar for Ways of Communication- Andrey Andreyev
• First Secretary of Moscow urban committee of AUCP(b) - Lazar Kaganovich

Events

• 2 August - White Sea–Baltic Canal opened.
• 5 September - Tupolev ANT-7 crash near Podolsk, which led to a complete reorganization of air traffic in the Soviet Union.

Undated

• Second Five Year Plan Begins
• The Holodomor famine takes place in Ukraine.
• Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.

Ongoing

• Soviet famine of 1932–1933

Births

• 4 January – Ilia II of Georgia, Georgian Orthodox patriarach (died 2026)
• 6 January – Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (died 2003)
• 15 April - Boris Strugatsky, writer (died 2012)
• 27 April - Leonid Roshal, pediatrician
• 28 April – Dmitry Zimin, radio scientist and businessman (died 2021)
• 12 May - Andrei Voznesensky, poet (died 2010)
• 20 May – Zoya Klyuchko, entomologist (died 2016)
• 19 June – Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (died 1971)
• 9 July - Elem Klimov, filmmaker (died 2003)
• 10 September – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (died 2000)
• 13 October - Mark Zakharov, filmmaker (died 2019)

Deaths

• 1 March – Uładzimir Zylka, poet
• 7 July – Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian communist leader
• 20 August - Vasily Boldyrev, WWI and Russian Civil War commander
• 8 October - Leonid Vesnin, architect

See also

• 1933 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1933
• Five-year plans of the Soviet Union

References