1926 in the Soviet Union

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The following lists events that happened during 1926 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

January

29 January – Soviet law changes and the size of inheritable estates becomes effectively unlimited.^[1]

April

24 April – The Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed.

July

July – The "Declaration of the 13" was written by Kamenev, Krupskaya, Trotsky, Zinoviev, along with 9 other contributors. The declaration was a denouncement of the economic policies of the right and the attacks on freedom the writers felt would lead to the destruction of the Bolshevik Revolution.^[2]

December

December – The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union is conducted.

Births

11 January – Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut
20 January – Vitaly Vorotnikov, statesman
31 January – Lev Russov, painter
7 February
- Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
- Mark Taimanov, pianist
10 March – Ivan Filin, Olympic athlete
24 March – Engels Kozlov, painter
3 April – Valentin Falin, diplomat and politician (died 2018)
10 April – Valeria Larina, painter
26 April – Yefrem Sokolov, politician (died in 2022)
22 May – Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player
1 June – Aleksandr Anufriyev, Olympic athlete
23 September – Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player
25 September – Sergei Filatov, Olympic equestrian
8 October – Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko, psychiatrist
20 October – Gennadi Kryuchkov, Russian Baptist minister
31 October – Saima Karimova, Russian geologist (died 2013)^[3]
10 December – Nikolai Tishchenko, footballer

Deaths

5 February - Theodor Nette, Soviet diplomatic courier of NKID (born 1896)
20 July - Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician (born 1877)
24 November – Leonid Krasin, politician ( born 1870)

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The following lists events that happened during 1924 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The following lists events that happened during 1925 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The following lists events that happened during 1927 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The following lists events that happened during 1928 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The following lists events that happened during 1930 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The following lists events that happened during 1932 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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References

↑ Hazard, John (June 1945). "Soviet Property Law". Cornell Law Review. 30 (4): 482 – via Law Commons.
↑ McCauley, Martin (2008). Stalin and Stalinism (Revised, third ed.). Harlow, England: Pearson Longman. ISBN 9781405874366. OCLC 191898287.
↑ Levchikova, Lilia. "Каримова Саима Сафиевна" [Karimova Saima Safievna] (in Russian). Yakutsk-Sakha Information Agency. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2023.

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[1] Hazard, John (June 1945). "Soviet Property Law". Cornell Law Review. 30 (4): 482 – via Law Commons.

[2] McCauley, Martin (2008). Stalin and Stalinism (Revised, third ed.). Harlow, England: Pearson Longman. ISBN 9781405874366. OCLC 191898287.

[3] Levchikova, Lilia. "Каримова Саима Сафиевна" [Karimova Saima Safievna] (in Russian). Yakutsk-Sakha Information Agency. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2023.

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