1939 in the Soviet Union
Appearance
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The following lists events that happened during 1939 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents[edit]
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov
Events[edit]
- March 10–21 – 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- May 11 – September 16 – Battles of Khalkhin Gol
- August 19 – German–Soviet Credit Agreement (1939)
- August 23 – Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- September 17-October 6 – Soviet invasion of Poland
- September 28 – Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty, also amendment to the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty
- October 5 – Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty
- October 10 – Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty
- November 26 – Shelling of Mainila
Births[edit]
- January 6 — Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager (d. 2002)
- January 28
- Viktor Shustikov, Russian footballer
- Valeri Kosenkov, Russian actor (d. 2013)
- January 31 — Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, Russian actor and film director (d. 2012)
- February 1 — Ekaterina Maximova, Soviet and Russian ballerina (d. 2009)
- February 15 — Akbar Mirzoyev, 2nd Prime Minister of Tajikistan
- March 8 — Lidiya Skoblikova, Soviet and Russian speed skater and coach
- March 31 — Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 1st President of Georgia (d. 1993)
- May 19 — Kateryna Boloshkevich, Ukrainian weaver and statesperson (d. 2018)
- May 20 — Roman Kartsev, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2018)
- May 26 — Merab Kostava, Georgian dissident, musician and poet (d. 1989)
- July 7 — Elena Obraztsova, Soviet and Russian opera singer (d. 2015)
- August 16 — Valery Ryumin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2022)
- July 14 — Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov, 2nd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan (d. 2015)
- August 28 — Vladimir Ivashov, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 1995)
- September 7 — Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Defence Forces official (d. 2017)
- September 17 — Vladimir Menshov, actor and film director (d. 2021)
- October 2 — Yuri Glazkov, Soviet Air Force officer and cosmonaut (d. 2008)
- November 9 — Suimenkul Chokmorov, Kyrgyz film actor (d. 1992)
- November 28 — Gennadi Volnov, Russian basketball player (d. 2008)
- December 30 — Elena Tchaikovskaia, Russian figure skating coach and choreographer
Deaths[edit]
- February 2 – Vladimir Shukhov, engineer.
- February 22 – Grigory Khakhanyan, corps commander.
- February 23
- Pyotr Smirnov, naval officer and politician.
- Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, army officer.
- February 26
- Stanislav Kosior, politician.
- Vlas Chubar, politician.
- Pavel Postyshev, politician.
- Ivan Fedko, army officer.
- March 3 – Georgy Bazilevich, corps commander.
- March 7 – Matvei Berman, security officer.
- March 10 – Georgy Bondar, corps commander.
- April 1 – Anton Makarenko, educator and writer.
- May 19 – Karl Radek, politician.
- May 21 – Grigori Sokolnikov, economist and politician.
- September 11 – Konstantin Korovin, painter.