1931 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1931 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 – Vyacheslav Molotov
Events
March
- 1–8 March – The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held.
April
- 27 April – 1931 Zangezur earthquake
Births
- 1 January – Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov, Olympic shooter
- 17 January – Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer
- 21 January – Tatjana Michaylovna Zacharova, production worker, author and politician
- 22 January – Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete
- 1 February – Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia
- 2 March – Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union
- 13 March – Alisa Aksyonova, museum director
- 23 March – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Olympic skier
- 29 March – Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
- 7 April – Lyubov Vorona, Ukrainian farm worker and politician
- 27 April – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
- 25 May – Georgy Grechko, cosmonaut
- 25 June – Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin, mathematician
- 27 June – Anatoli Ilyin, footballer
- 24 September – Mark Midler, Olympic fencer
- 28 September – Emma Yefimova, Olympic fencer
- 24 October – Sofia Gubaidulina, composer
- 1 November – Dmitri Bashkirov, pianist
- 21 November – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian physicist
Deaths
- 23 January – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, died in The Hague
- 15 August – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, first Azerbaijani nurse