1937 in the Soviet Union

none May 2023 March 2023 1937 The following lists events that happened during 1937 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 23–30 January — Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist CenterOctober 2025 June — Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization 18–20 June — The first transpolar flight and the first non-stop USSR-USA flight by the crew led by Valery Chkalov 12–14 July — A world-record non-stop flight, by the crew led by Mikhail Gromov, from Moscow to San Jacinto, California 12 December — Soviet Union legislative election, 1937 Films Bezhin Meadow — directed by Sergei Eisenstein Lullaby — directed by Dziga Vertov The Return of Maxim — directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg Without Dowry — directed by Yakov Protazanov Births 2 January — Marietta Chudakova, Soviet and Russian literary critic (d. 2021) 12 January — Mikheil Meskhi, footballer (d. 1991) 20 January — Mintimer Shaimiev, 1st Head of Tatarstan 30 January — Boris Spassky, Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster 16 February — Yuri Manin, mathematician (d. 2023) 19 February — Boris Pugo, 9th Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union (d. 1991) 25 February — Yegor Stroyev, 2nd Chairman of the Federation Council 28 February — Vitaly Tulenev, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher (d. 1997) 4 March — Yuri Senkevich, Soviet and Russian physician and scientist (d. 2003) 6 March — Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut 15 March — Valentin Rasputin, Soviet and Russian writer (d. 2015) 16 March — Valentina Parshina, agronomist and politician (d. 2020)Malashenkov Evgeny Паршина Валентина Романовна Parshina Valentina Romanovna https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=17319 Homeland heroes be Героі краіны (інтэрнэт-сайт) hy Երկրի հերոսներ (կայք) ru Герои страны ru 21 March 2023 5 April 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220405155737/https://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=17319 live 18 March — Aleksei Zasukhin, Soviet and Russian boxer (d. 1996) 23 March — Boris Zaytsev, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goaltender (d. 2000) 2 April — Yuri Falin, Soviet and Russian football player (d. 2003) 9 April — Leonid Barbier, Soviet and Ukrainian swimmer (d. 2023) 10 April — Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet and Russian poet (d. 2010) 13 April — Osman Mirzayev, Head of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan (d. 1991) 14 April — Anatoly Lysenko, television figure, journalist, director and producer (d. 2021) 24 April — Galina Semenova, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2017) 27 April — Olga Bondareva, mathematician and economist (d. 1991) 29 April — Yevgeny Feofanov, boxer (d. 2000) 1 May — Hazret Sovmen, 2nd Head of the Republic of Adygea 7 May — Sergey Ling, 3rd Prime Minister of Belarus 10 May — Vadim Rogovin, Soviet and Russian Trotskyist historian and sociologist (d. 1998) 30 May — Aleksandr Demyanenko, actor (d. 1999) 12 June — Vladimir Arnold, mathematician (d. 2010) 18 June — Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet and Ukrainian cosmonaut 2 July — Oleg Shenin, politician (d. 2009) 6 July — Vladimir Ashkenazy, Soviet and Russian pianist 7 July — Valery Anisimov, wrestler 8 July — Lidia Klement, singer (d. 1964) 21 July — Eduard Streltsov, footballer (d. 1990) 24 July — Valentina Dorofeeva, industrialist (d. 2018) 10 August — Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (d. 2000) 20 August — Uzakbay Karamanov, last Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR (d. 2017) 26 August — Gennady Yanayev, Vice President of the Soviet Union (d. 2010) 6 September — Gennady Shpalikov, poet, screenwriter and film director (d. 1974) 13 September — Igor Ivanov, Acting Head of Karachay-Cherkessia (d. 2000) 16 September — Valentina Dimitrieva, Soviet and Russian farm worker (d. 2019) 20 September — Valentin Knysh, politician (d. 2022) 23 September — Aleksandr Medakin, Soviet and Russian football player (d. 1993) 24 September — Umyar Mavlikhanov, Soviet and Russian fencer (d. 1999) 26 September — Valentin Pavlov, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003) 28 September — Georgy Rerberg, Soviet and Russian cinematographer (d. 1999) 30 September Yuri Maslyukov, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2010) Vitaliy Boiko, Soviet and Ukrainian lawyer and diplomat (d. 2020) 3 October — Aleksandr Kondratov, Soviet and Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet (d. 1993) 8 October — Eduard Rossel, 1st Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast 27 October — Victor Popov, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist (d. 1994) 6 November — Vadim Bakatin, 8th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (d. 2022) 12 November — Alexey Obukhov, Russian diplomat and politician (d. 2022) 13 November — Mikhail Nikolayev, 1st Head of the Sakha Republic (d. 2023) 22 November — Nikolai Kapustin, Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (d. 2020) 25 November — Serikbolsyn Abdildin, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan (d. 2019) 26 November — Boris Yegorov, Soviet and Russian physician and cosmonaut (d. 1994) 29 November — Ali Aliyev, Soviet and Russian freestyle wrestler (d. 1995) 7 December — Simon Gindikin, Russian mathematician 24 December — Viacheslav Chornovil, Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician (d. 1999) Deaths 10 January — Martemyan Ryutin, Marxist activist, Bolshevik revolutionary and a political functionary of the Russian Communist Party (b. 1890) 16 January — Pyotr Bark, banker and government official during the Imperial Russia era (b. 1869) 30 January Georgy Pyatakov, 1st First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (b. 1890) Nikolay Muralov, Bolshevik revolutionary leader and military commander (b. 1877) 18 February — Grigory Ordzhonikidze, member of the Old Bolsheviks and statesman (b. 1886) 24 February — Vladimir Lipsky, scientist and botanist (b. 1863) 8 March — Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, politician and activist (b. 1896) 22 March — Vladimir Maksimov, stage and silent film actor (b. 1880) 29 March — Feodor Koenemann, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1873) 13 April — Ilya Ilf, journalist and writer (b. 1897) 31 May Yan Gamarnik, 10th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1894) Nikolai Uglanov, 9th First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1886) 4 June — Keke Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858) 12 June Mikhail Tukhachevsky, prominent general (b. 1893) Ieronim Uborevich, military commander (b. 1896) Iona Yakir, army commander (b. 1896) Vitovt Putna, Red Army officer (b. 1893) Vitaly Primakov, revolutionary, military leader and commander of the Red Cossacks (b. 1897) Robert Eideman, komkor, writer and poet (b. 1895) Maria Ulyanova, revolutionary, politician and younger sister of Vladimir Lenin (b. 1878) 16 June — Alexander Chervyakov, politician, revolutionary and founding member of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1892) 27 June — Sandro Akhmeteli, theater director (b. 1886) 1 July Ilya Garkavy, komkor and organizer of the Red Guards detachments in Tiraspol (b. 1888) Matvei Vasilenko, komkor (b. 1888) 3 July — Boris Gorbachyov, komkor (b. 1892) 13 July Mikhail Alafusov, general (b. 1891) Mykhailo Boychuk, monumentalist and modernist painter (b. 1882) 16 July — Vladimir Kirillov, poet (b. 1889) 18 July — Grigol Giorgadze, historian, jurist and politician (b. 1879) 22 July — Paolo Iashvili, poet and one of the leading members of the Georgian symbolist movement (b. 1894) 13 August — Sigizmund Levanevsky, pioneer of long-range flight (b. 1902) 19 August Alexander Hotovitzky, Russian Orthodox priest and missionary (b. 1872) Ivan Kataev, novelist, short story writer and journalist (b. 1902) 9 September — Mikhail Diterikhs, general in the Imperial Russian Army and key figure in the White movement (b. 1874) 20 September — Lev Karakhan, revolutionary and diplomat (b. 1889) 27 September — Alikhan Bukeikhanov, politician, statesman and journalist (b. 1866) 10 October — Peter of Krutitsy, Russian Orthodox priest and metropolitan (b. 1862) 23 October — Nikolai Klyuev, poet (b. 1884) 30 October Avel Enukidze, member of the Old Bolsheviks (b. 1877) Ivan Zhukov, politician and statesman (b. 1889) Mendel Khatayevich, politician and one of the main organizers of Collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1893) 10 November — Nikolai Batalov, stage and film actor (b. 1899) 20 November — Joseph Petrovykh, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and spiritual writer (b. 1872) 25 November — Aleksandr Glagolev, Russian Orthodox priest (b. 1872) 26 November — Leonid Veyner, general (b. 1897) 27 November Vsevolod Balitsky, official (b. 1892) Vasyl Lypkivsky, Russian Orthodox priest and metropolitan (b. 1864) 28 November — Ernest Appoga, general and revolutionary (b. 1898) 8 December — Ahmet Baitursynuly, intellectual (b. 1872) 16 December — Giorgi Mazniashvili, general and military leader of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (b. 1871) 21 December — Meliton Balanchivadze, opera singer and composer (b. 1862) Dates unknown Vassily Ryutin, older son of Martemyan Ryutin (b. 1910) Vissarion Ryutin, younger son of Martemyan Ryutin (b. 1913) See also 1937 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1937 References 1937 1937 in Category:1930s in the Soviet Union