1929 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1929 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

February

9 February – Litvinov's Pact is signed.
17 February – The Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus begins.

May

1 May – 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake

July

22 July – 9 September – Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)

Births

11 January – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect
14 January – Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball coach
30 March – Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, mathematician
18 May – Halyna Sevruk, artist
21 May – Boris Seidenberg, actor
5 June – Sergo Mikoyan, historian
7 July – Yakov Lyubarsky, scholar
18 August – Anatoly Kuznetsov, writer
28 September – Nikolai Ryzhkov, politician
15 October – Nikodim, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan
22 October – Lev Yashin, footballer
15 December – Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov, mathematician
23 December – Antonina Seredina, Olympic canoeist

Deaths

11 January – Yakov Slashchov, White Army general
18 March – Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist
not earlier than 15 April – Panteleimon Belochub, Ukrainian soldier