1923 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1923 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
April
June
- 16 June – The Yakut Revolt ends with the defeat of the White Army.
October
- 15 October – The Declaration of 46 is sent.
Births
- January 9 — Eduard Kolmanovsky, People's Artist of the USSR
- January 13 — Daniil Shafran, cellist
- January 15 — Yevgeny Vesnik, actor
- January 27 — Vladimir Aleksenko, Air force general
- January 30 — Leonid Gaidai, comedy film director, screenwriter and actor
- February 7 — Grigory Romanov, 9th First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- April 3 — Lev Zaykov, 10th First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- April 27 — Viktor Chebrikov, 6th Chairman of the Committee for State Security
- April 28 — Zarifa Aliyeva, ophthalmologist
- May 5 — Sergey Akhromeyev, 8th Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces
- May 10 — Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan
- July 13 — Mikhail Pugovkin, comic actor
- July 28 — Vladimir Basov, actor, film director and screenwriter
- August 11 — Maxim Grabovenko, Hero of the Soviet Union
- September 6 — Aleksandr Babaev, fighter pilot
- September 11 — Grigory Baklanov, writer
- September 13 — Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Hero of the Soviet Union
- September 20 — Aleksandr Koldunov, flying ace during WWII
- September 26 — Aleksandr Alov, film director
- September 29 — Aleksei Filippov, mathematician
- October 18 — Pyotr Lushev, army general
- October 25 — Mikhail Mikhin, flying ace
- October 31 — Ivan Otmakhov, Hero of the Soviet Union
- November 6 — Aleksandra Chudina, athlete
- November 9 — Viktor Turbin, Hero of the Soviet Union
- November 11 — Isaac Trachtenberg, Hygienist
- November 22 — Yury Nikandrov, Olympic shooter
- November 23 — Mikhail Zaitsev, general of the Soviet Army
- November 29 — Inna Zubkovskaya, ballerina
- December 2 — Alexander Yakovlev, politician, diplomat and historian
- December 14 — Akhsarbek Abaev, Hero of the Soviet Union
- December 15 — Valentin Varennikov, general and politician