The following lists events that happened during
1938
Events
January
* January 1
** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
in the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
*
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED O ...
–
Joseph Stalin
*
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union –
Mikhail Kalinin
*
–
Vyacheslav Molotov
Events
* March –
Trial of the Twenty-One
* 15 March – The Soviet Union announces officially that
Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Буха́рин) ( – 15 March 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marxist philosopher and economist and prolific author on revolutionary theory. ...
has been executed.
* 29 July–11 August –
Battle of Lake Khasan
* 2 September – Soviet Ambassador to Britain
Ivan Maisky calls on
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...
, telling him that Soviet Foreign Commissar
Maxim Litvinov has expressed to the French chargé d'affaires in Moscow that the Soviet Union is willing to fight over the territorial integrity of
Czechoslovakia.
*''unknown date'' – Family plots produce 22% of all
Soviet agricultural produce, on only 4% of all cultivated land.
Births
* January 2 –
Anatoly Samoilenko, Ukrainian mathematician (died
2020
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)
* January 8 –
Yevgeny Nesterenko
Yevgeny Yevgenievich Nesterenko (russian: Евгений Евгеньевич Нестеренко, link=no; 8 January 1938 – 20 March 2021) was a Soviet and Russian operatic bass. He made an international career, based at the Bolshoi Theatre ...
, Russian operatic bass (died
2021
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)
* January 18 –
Stepan Topal
Stepan Mikhailovich Topal (18 January 1938 – 29 September 2018) was a Moldovan politician of Gagauz ancestry. From 1990 to 1994 he served as the only leader and President of the Gagauz Republic; after reunification with Moldova he served until ...
, Moldovan politician (died
2018
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)
* February 24 –
Emma Gapchenko, archer
* June 24 –
Boris Lagutin, boxer
* July 9 –
Liya Akhedzhakova
Liya Medzhidovna Akhedzhakova (russian: link=no, Лия Меджидовна Ахеджакова; born 9 July 1938) is a Soviet and Russian film, stage and voice actress who received the title of People's Artist of Russia in 1994. She received tw ...
, Russian actress
* July 10 –
Vera Shebeko, Russian anchorwoman
* July 14 –
Lillian Malkina, Russian actress
* July 18 –
Valery Kerdemelidi, Russian artistic gymnast
* July 21 –
Vladimir Radionov
Vladimir Veniaminovich Radionov (russian: Владимир Вениаминович Радионов; born 21 July 1938) is a Russian former football player, coach and official.
He served as a General Secretary of the Russian Football Union from ...
, Russian football player, coach and official
* July 22 –
Mark Rakita, Russian sabreur and coach
* August 9 –
Oleksandr Omelchenko, Ukrainian politician,
Mayor of Kyiv (died
2021
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)
* August 19 –
Valentin Mankin
Valentyn Grigoryevich Mankin (russian: Валентин Григорьевич Манкин; 19 August 1938 – 1 June 2014) was a Soviet/Ukrainian sailor from Kyiv, three times Olympic champion for the USSR team.
Life
Mankin was Jewish.
He ...
, Ukrainian Soviet sailor, Olympic triple champion and silver medalist (died
2014
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)
* November 11 –
Ants Antson
Ants Antson (11 November 1938 – 31 October 2015) was an Estonian speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.
Biography
Antson trained at the Kalev Voluntary Sports Society. Coached by former World, Olympic, and European Champion Boris ...
, Estonian speed skater (died
2015
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)
Deaths
* January 22 –
Sergei Buturlin, Soviet ornithologist (b.
1872
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
* February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
)
* February 8
**
Mikhail Batorsky
Mikhail Alexandrovich Batorsky (; 25 January 1890 8 February 1938) was a Red Army Komkor.
The son of an officer and a member of the nobility, Batorsky fought in World War I as a staff officer, ending the war with the rank of lieutenant colone ...
, Soviet
komkor (executed) (b.
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship ...
)
**
Nikolai Kuzmin
Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin (russian: Николай Николаевич Кузьмин) (3 April 1883 – 8 February 1938) was a Soviet political and military leader. He was the political commissar of the Baltic Fleet during the time of the Ru ...
, Soviet political and military leader (executed) (b.
1883
Events
January–March
* January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States.
* January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.
* Janua ...
)
* March 15 –
Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Буха́рин) ( – 15 March 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marxist philosopher and economist and prolific author on revolutionary theory. ...
,
Alexei Rykov
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (25 February 188115 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. He wa ...
,
Nikolay Krestinsky,
Genrikh Yagoda,
Arkady Rosengolts,
Vladimir Ivanovich Ivanov
Vladimir Ivanovich Ivanov (russian: Владимир Иванович Иванов; 27 August 1893 – 6 November 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician who served as the first First Secretary of the Communist Party of the U ...
,
Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov,
Hryhoriy Hrynko,
Fayzulla Khodzhayev and
Vasily Sharangovich
Vasily Fomich Sharangovich (russian: Васи́лий Фоми́ч Шаранго́вич; be, Васіль Фаміч Шаранговіч, Vasil Sharanhovich; March 4, 1897 – March 15, 1938) was Belarusian Soviet politician and first secretary ...
* June 20 –
Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (shot)
* July 28 –
Yakov Alksnis
* July 29 –
Pavel Dybenko
* August 16 –
Sergey Aydarov
Sergey Vasilyevich Aydarov (russian: Сергей Васильевич Айдаров, born Vishnevsky, Вишневский, 20 October 1867 — 16 August 1938) was a Russian and Soviet stage actor and theatre director, associated with the Moscow ...
, actor (b.
1867
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...
)
* August 22 –
Eduard Lepin, Latvian-born Soviet general (b.
1889
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...
)
* November 9 –
Vasily Blyukher
* December 15 –
Valery Chkalov, test pilot (b.
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
* ...
)
* December 27 –
Osip Mandelstam, poet (b.
1891
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence.
**Germany takes formal possession of its new Africa ...
)
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See also
* 1938 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1938 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
Events
* January 20 — Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphics, made under the contracts of 1937 year, was opene ...
* List of Soviet films of 1938
A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1938 (see 1938 in film).
1938
See also
*1938 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1938at the Internet Movie Database
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References
{{Asia topic, 1938 in
1930s in the Soviet Union