1928 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1928 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

October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented.

May

18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins.

Births

18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach
10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania
5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist
7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor
20 March – Khanifa Iskandarova, Russian educator
10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician
25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor
14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer
28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympic equestrian
2 July – Tatyana Piletskaya, actress
13 July – Valentin Pikul, novelist
15 July – Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer
30 July – Valentin Muratov, Olympic gymnast
2 September – Muhammad Dandamayev, Babylonia historian
22 November – Valentin Galochkin, sculptor
29 November – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
31 December – Tatyana Shmyga, actress

Deaths

7 April – Alexander Bogdanov, Bolshevik