1929 in the Soviet Union explained

The following lists events that happened during 1929 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

February

9 February – Litvinov's Pact is signed.^[1]
17 February – The Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus begins.

May

1 May – 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake

July

22 July – 9 September – Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)

Births

11 January – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect (d. 2020)^[2]
14 January – Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball coach (d. 1999)
30 March – Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, mathematician (d. 2009)
18 May – Halyna Sevruk, artist (d. 2022)
21 May – Boris Seidenberg, actor
5 June – Sergo Mikoyan, historian
7 July – Yakov Lyubarsky, scholar
18 August – Anatoly Kuznetsov, writer
28 September – Nikolai Ryzhkov, politician (d. 2024)^[3]
15 October – Nikodim, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan (d. 1978)
22 October – Lev Yashin, footballer
15 December – Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov, mathematician
23 December – Antonina Seredina, Olympic canoeist

Deaths

11 January – Yakov Slashchov, White Army general (born 1885)
18 March – Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist (born 1889)
not earlier than 15 April – Panteleimon Belochub, Ukrainian soldier (born 1892)

See also

Notes and References

Book: Marks . Sally . The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe 1918-1933 . 2003 . Macmillan International Higher Education . 978-1-137-12732-7 . 116 . en.
Web site: Dmitri Bruns. The Union of Estonian Architects. 6 December 2009.
https://www.rferl.org/a/soviet-premier-ryzhkov-dies-94/32840728.html Former Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov Dies At 94