1936 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1936 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
- August 19–24 – Trial of the Sixteen
Undated
- Stalin's Great Purges begin.
- Second Five-Year Plan underway
Films
By the Bluest of Seas – directed by Boris Barnet- Circus – directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
- Girl Friends – directed by Lev Arnshtam
Births
- 28 January - Bernara Karieva, Uzbekistani ballerina
- 2 June - Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian Olympic athlete
- 7 July - Anatoly Kirov, Russian wrestler
- 17 July - Shota Shamatava, politician
- 31 August – Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist
- 1 September - Valery Legasov, Russian chemist
- 21 September - Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow
- 8 October - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor
- 30 October
- * Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast
- * Margarita Voites, Estonian soprano