1930 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1930 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, Vyacheslav Molotov

Events

June

26 June – 13 July – 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

November

25 November – 7 December – The Industrial Party Trial is held.

Births

1 January – Zhanna Kolodub, Ukrainian composer and teacher
9 January
* Pavel Kolchin, cross-country skier
* Igor Netto, footballer
14 January – Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh, Azerbaijani scientist and businessman
26 February – Vladimir Kesarev, footballer
15 March – Mariya Orlyk, teacher and politician
10 April – Vladimir Yerokhin, footballer
16 April – Fyodor Bogdanovsky, Olympic weightlifter
19 May – Leonid Kharitonov, actor
31 May – Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist and engineer
29 June – Anatoli Maslyonkin, footballer
10 July – Dmitry Oboznenko, painter
21 September – Sergei Popov, Olympic athlete
7 October – Yuri Dubinin, diplomat
10 October – Medea Amiranashvili, Georgian soprano
21 October – Ivan Silayev, politician
29 December – Vladimir Ryzhkin, footballer
31 December – Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, actor

Deaths

14 April – Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet