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