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The following lists events that happened during 1931 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]March
[edit]- 1–8 March – The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held.[1]
April
[edit]- 27 April – 1931 Zangezur earthquake[2]
Births
[edit]- 1 January – Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov, Olympic shooter (died 2001)
- 17 January – Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer (died 2013)
- 21 January – Tatjana Michaylovna Zacharova, production worker, author and politician
- 22 January – Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete
- 1 February – Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia (died 2007)
- 2 March – Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union (died 2022)
- 13 March – Alisa Aksyonova, museum director
- 23 March – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Olympic skier
- 29 March – Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
- 7 April – Lyubov Vorona, Ukrainian farm worker and politician (died 2021)
- 27 April – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
- 25 May – Georgy Grechko, cosmonaut
- 25 June – Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin, mathematician
- 27 June – Anatoli Ilyin, footballer
- 24 September – Mark Midler, Olympic fencer
- 28 September – Emma Yefimova, Olympic fencer
- 1 November – Dmitri Bashkirov, pianist (died 2021)
- 21 November – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian physicist (died 1985)
Deaths
[edit]- 23 January – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, died in The Hague (born 1881)
- 15 August – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, first Azerbaijani nurse (born 1871 or 1878)[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "NEW MASS TRIAL IN MOSCOW". Aberdeen Journal. British Newspaper Archive. 2 March 1931. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- ^ National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) (1972), Significant Earthquake Database (Data Set), National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
- ^ Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia (1987), vol. 10, p. 551