1928 in the Soviet Union explained

The following lists events that happened during 1928 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

Events

• October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented.^[1]

May

• 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins.^[2]

Births

• 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach
• 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania
• 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist
• 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988)
• 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021)
• 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor
• 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012)
• 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympic equestrian
• 2 July – Tatyana Piletskaya, actress
• 13 July – Valentin Pikul, novelist
• 15 July – Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 2012)
• 30 July – Valentin Muratov, Olympic gymnast
• 2 September – Muhammad Dandamayev, Babylonia historian (d. 2017)
• 22 November – Valentin Galochkin, sculptor
• 29 November – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
• 31 December – Tatyana Shmyga, actress

Deaths

• 7 April – Alexander Bogdanov, Bolshevik (born 1873)^[3]

See also

• 1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1928
• Soviet grain procurement crisis of 1928

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2015-10-07 . The First Five Year Plan, 1928–1932 . 2019-02-23 . Special Collections & Archives . en.
2. Book: Kotkin, Stephen . Stalin. Vol. I, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 . 2014 . 978-0-7139-9944-0 . London . 702–705 . 896612267.
3. Huestis . Douglas W. . 2007 . Alexander Bogdanov: The Forgotten Pioneer of Blood Transfusion . Transfusion Medicine Reviews . 21 . 4 . 337–340 . 10.1016/j.tmrv.2007.05.008 . 17900494.