1925 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1925 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
Events
January
- 20 January – The Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention is signed.
December
- 18–31 December – 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Sports
Births
- 2 January – Irina Arkhipova, singer
- 11 January – Viktor Avdyushko, actor
- 15 January – August Englas, Estonian wrestler
- 30 January – Pyotr Kuznetsov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
- 19 February – Galina Bogdanova, Russian grinder and production leader
- 8 March – Efim Geller, chess Grandmaster
- 26 June – Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut
- 13 September – Sergei Salnikov, footballer
- 20 October – Firudin Shushinski, musicologist
- 24 November – Mikhail Khvatkov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
- 12 December - Alexander Khmelik, playwright and director
- 21 December – Tatyana Karakashyants, Olympic diver
Deaths
- 6 August - Grigory Kotovsky, Soviet military and political activist, commander of the Red Army and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
- 31 October - Mikhail Frunze, Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist
- 28 December - Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet of the Silver Age of Russian poetry