1924 in the Soviet Union

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, Alexei Rykov

Events

January

• 19 January – failed attempt to free capital of Khiva from Bolsheviks
• 21 January- Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, dies at age 53
• 26 January – started Second All-Union Congress of Soviets in Moscow
• * 26 January – Petrograd is renamed into Leningrad
• * 27 January – Lenin is buried in the Lenin's Mausoleum at the Red Square
• * 29 January – a three-day plenary session of the Russian Communist Party adopted decision on "Lenin's call to the party"
• * 31 January – The 1924 Soviet Constitution is ratified by the Congress of Soviets

February

• 1 February – United Kingdom recognized the Soviet Union
• 2 February – ended Second All-Union Congress of Soviets in Moscow
• * Alexei Rykov has been appointment as the Chairman of Sovnarkom
• 7 February – Italy recognized the Soviet Union
• 15 February – began the "Lenin Enrolment" into the Russian Communist Party
• 25 February – plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bukhara approved the national delimitation of the Central Asia

March

• 3 March — Executive Bureau of the Central Committee of the Khorezm Communist Party approved the initiative on the national delimitation of the Central Asia
• 10 March — Central Committee of the Turkestan Communist Party approved the initiative on the national delimitation of the Central Asia
• In Vienna, Austria was opened a bilateral conference between Romania and the Soviet Union on the "Bessarabian issue"

April

• 2 April — Romanian delegation rejected the Soviet proposal to hold a plebiscite a plebiscite in Bessarabia and interrupted further negotiations with the Soviet Union
• All-Russian Central Executive Committee awarded "proletariat of Tashkent" with Order of the Red Banner

May

• 23–31 May – 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

June

• 12 June – Politburo of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party adopted a resolution on national delimitation in the Central Asia

July

• 8-22 July – 3rd Congress of Profintern in Moscow

August

• 3–4 August – Soviet raid on Stołpce
• 28 August – 5 September – August Uprising in Georgia, Transcaucasian SFSR

September

• 15–18 September – Tatarbunary Uprising with Soviet involvement starts in Romania
• 23 September – 1924 Leningrad flooding

October

• 12 October – on territory of Ukraine established the Moldavian ASSR centered in Balta on decision of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
• 14 October – All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted decision on establishing of autonomous regions within the Turkestan ASSR
• 27 October – instead of Turkestan ASSR, Bukharan SSR, and Khorezm SSR were formed Uzbek SSR and Turkmen SSR

November

• 14 November – Yekaterinburg renamed into ''Sverdlovsk''

December

• 19 December – on decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Volga German Autonomous Oblast transformed into Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Births

• 13 February – Ivan Mozgovenko, clarinetist and music teacher
• 18 February – Evald Ilyenkov, writer
• 29 February – Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB
• 19 March – Lev Kulidzhanov, film director
• 18 April – Pyotr Nikolayev, Olympic shooter
• 11 May – Eugene Dynkin, mathematician
• 21 May – Boris Vasilyev, writer
• 10 July – Vladimir Sukharev, Olympic athlete
• 20 July – Tatyana Lioznova, film director
• 4 October – Georgy Shakhnazarov, Soviet-Armenian politician
• 3 November – Violetta Elvin, ballerina
• 5 December – Vladimir Dolgikh, politician
• Date unknown – Nikolai Nagibin, posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union

Deaths

• 21 January – Vladimir Lenin, USSR politician
• 30 June – Praskovya Uvarova, archaeologist