1922 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1922 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 – Vladimir Lenin
Events
February
- 5-14 February – Battle of Volochayevka
March
Fall
Mass expulsions of intellectuals on the so-called Philosophers' ships and later by rail.December
- 30 December – First All-Union Congress of Soviets
- * 30 December – Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
- 30 December – The Declaration of the Creation of the USSR is ratified.
- 30 December – Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Births
- 5 January – Aleksey Gushchin, Olympic shooting champion
- 7 March – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
- 20 March – Irina Antonova, art historian
- 30 March – Konstantin Kabanov, Soviet Air Force pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
- 1 December – Vsevolod Bobrov, Olympic footballer
- 2 December – Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Olympic gymnast
- 12 December – Vasily Borisov, Olympic shooting champion
- 23 December – Sofya Kondakova, speed skater
- 27 December – Yevheniia Kucherenko, pedagogue
- date unknown – Ilya Timofeyevich Osipov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union