1926 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 – Alexei Rykov

Events

January

• 29 January – Soviet law changes and the size of inheritable estates becomes effectively unlimited.

April

• 24 April – The Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed.

July

• July – The "Declaration of the 13" was written by Kamenev, Krupskaya, Trotsky, Zinoviev, along with 9 other contributors. The declaration was a denouncement of the economic policies of the left and the attacks on freedom the writers felt would lead to the destruction of the Bolshevik Revolution.

December

• December – The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union is conducted.

Births

• 11 January – Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut
• 20 January – Vitaly Vorotnikov, statesman
• 31 January – Lev Russov, painter
• 7 February
• * Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
• * Mark Taimanov, pianist
• 10 March – Ivan Filin, Olympic athlete
• 24 March – Engels Kozlov, painter
• 3 April – Valentin Falin, diplomat and politician
• 10 April – Valeria Larina, painter
• 26 April – Yefrem Sokolov, politician
• 22 May – Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player
• 1 June – Aleksandr Anufriyev, Olympic athlete
• 23 September – Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player
• 25 September – Sergei Filatov, Olympic equestrian
• 8 October – Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko, psychiatrist
• 20 October – Gennadi Kryuchkov, Russian Baptist minister
• 31 October – Saima Karimova, Russian geologist
• 10 December – Nikolai Tishchenko, footballer

Deaths

• 5 February - Theodor Nette, Soviet diplomatic courier of NKID
• 20 July - Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician
• 24 November – Leonid Krasin, politician
• 17 March - Aleksei Brusilov, General during WW1 and the Russian Civil War