1932 in the Soviet Union

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

• Soviet famine of 1932–33

January

• 21 January – The Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

July

• 25 July – The Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

August

• 7 August – The Law of Spikelets is enacted.

September

• 23 September – Ryutin Affair: Martemyan Ryutin and others in the Union of Marxists-Leninists are arrested.

Births

• 3 January – Valentina Gaganova, textile worker and politician.
• 4 January – Roman Personov, scientist
• 10 January – Iskra Babich, film director
• 25 January – Nikolay Anikin, skier
• 27 January
• * Rimma Kazakova, poet
• * Boris Shakhlin, Olympic gymnast
• 22 February – Victor Cherkashin, KGB counter-intelligence officer
• 4 April – Andrei Tarkovsky, film director
• 3 May – Maria Itkina, Olympic sprinter
• 15 May – Arkady Volsky, politician
• 6 June – Tamara Novikova, female cyclist
• 13 June – Boris Katalimov, Chess International Master
• 16 June – Alla Osipenko, ballerina
• 20 June – Robert Rozhdestvensky, poet
• 2 August – Vladimir Struzhanov, swimmer
• 20 August – Vasily Aksyonov, novelist
• 18 September – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut
• 16 December – Rodion Shchedrin, composer

Deaths

• 18 January – Dmitry Shcherbachev, general
• 9 November – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin