1933 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1933 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
- People's Commissar for military and naval affairs- Kliment Voroshilov
- People's Commissar for heavy industry- Sergo Ordzhonikidze
- People's Commissar for Ways of Communication- Andrey Andreyev
- First Secretary of Moscow urban committee of AUCP(b) - Lazar Kaganovich
Events
- 2 August - White Sea–Baltic Canal opened.
- 5 September - Tupolev ANT-7 crash near Podolsk, which led to a complete reorganization of air traffic in the Soviet Union.
Undated
- Second Five Year Plan Begins
- The Holodomor famine takes place in Ukraine.
- Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.
Ongoing
Births
- 6 January – Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut
- 15 April - Boris Strugatsky, writer
- 27 April - Leonid Roshal, pediatrician
- 28 April – Dmitry Zimin, radio scientist and businessman
- 12 May - Andrei Voznesensky, poet
- 20 May – Zoya Klyuchko, entomologist
- 19 June – Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
- 9 July - Elem Klimov, filmmaker
- 10 September – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
- 13 October - Mark Zakharov, filmmaker
Deaths
- 1 March – Uładzimir Zylka, poet
- 7 July – Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian communist leader
- 20 August - Vasily Boldyrev, WWI and Russian Civil War commander
- 8 October - Leonid Vesnin, architect