1937 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1937 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 23–30 January – Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- February 16 — Yuri Manin, mathematician (d. 2023)
- February 19 — Boris Pugo, 9th Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union (d. 1991)
- February 25 — Yegor Stroyev, 2nd Chairman of the Federation Council
- March 16 — Valentina Parshina, agronomist and politician (d. 2020)[1]
- April 14 — Anatoly Lysenko, television figure, journalist, director and producer (d. 2021)
- April 29 — Yevgeny Feofanov, boxer (d. 2000)
- May 7 — Sergey Ling, 3rd Prime Minister of Belarus
- May 30 — Aleksandr Demyanenko, actor (d. 1999)
- June 12 — Vladimir Arnold, mathematician (d. 2010)
- July 2 — Oleg Shenin, politician (d. 2009)
- July 7 — Valery Anisimov, wrestler
- July 8 — Lidia Klement, singer (d. 1964)
- August 10 — Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (d. 2000)
- August 20 — Uzakbay Karamanov, last Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR (d. 2017)
- August 26 — Gennady Yanayev, Vice President of the Soviet Union (d. 2010)
- September 6 — Gennady Shpalikov, poet, screenwriter and film director (d. 1974)
- September 16 — Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker (d. 2019)
- September 26 — Valentin Pavlov, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003)
- September 30 — Yuri Maslyukov, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2010)
- November 6 — Vadim Bakatin, 8th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (d. 2022)
- November 25 — Serikbolsyn Abdildin, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan (d. 2019)
- December 24 — Viacheslav Chornovil, Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician (d. 1999)
Deaths
[edit]- 10 January – Martemyan Ryutin (born 1890)
- 30 January
- Georgy Pyatakov (born 1890)
- Nikolay Muralov (born 1877)
- 18 February – Grigory Ordzhonikidze (born 1886)
- 13 April – Ilya Ilf (born 1897)
- 31 May
- Yan Gamarnik (born 1894)
- Nikolai Uglanov (born 1886)
- 12 June
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky (born 1893)
- Ieronim Uborevich (born 1896)
- Iona Yakir (born 1896)
- Vitovt Putna (born 1893)
- Vitaly Primakov (born 1897)
- Robert Eideman (born 1895)
- Maria Ulyanova, younger sister of Vladimir Lenin (born 1878)
- 13 July – Mikhail Alafusov (born 1891)
- 30 October – Avel Enukidze (born 1877)
- 26 November – Leonid Veyner (born 1897)
- 28 November – Ernest Appoga (born 1898)
- Vassily Ryutin, older son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1910)
- Vissarion Ryutin, younger son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1913)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Malashenkov, Evgeny. "Паршина Валентина Романовна" [Parshina Valentina Romanovna] (in Russian). Homeland heroes. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
