1936 in the Soviet Union explained

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^[1]

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]
• 2 June - Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
• 7 July - Anatoly Kirov, Russian wrestler
• 17 July - Shota Shamatava, politician (d. 2013)
• 31 August – Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist (d. 2018)
• 1 September - Valery Legasov, Russian chemist (d. 1988)
• 21 September - Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019)
• 8 October - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022)
• 30 October
  • Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
  • Margarita Voites, Estonian soprano (d. 2024)

Deaths

• August 22 – Mikhail Tomsky
• August 25 – Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov

See also

• 1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)
• List of Soviet films of 1936
• Purges
• Soviet Union

Notes and References

1. Conquest, Robert (1990), The Great Terror: A Reassessment. Oxford University Press. . p. 91.
2. Encyclopedia: Karieva, Bernara Rakhimovna. Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979. 23 May 2022. The Free Library. 1 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220601163411/https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Bernara+Karieva. live.