The following lists events that happened during 1926 in the

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED ...

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Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet Union, Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as Ge ...

* Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets –

Mikhail Kalinin Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (russian: link=no, Михаи́л Ива́нович Кали́нин ; 3 June 1946), known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was a Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as head of st ...

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union The Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was the head of government of the Soviet Union during the existence of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1946. History The post of chair of ...

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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 was ...

Events

January

* 29 January – Soviet law changes and the size of inheritable estates becomes effectively unlimited.

April

* 24 April – The

Treaty of Berlin (1926) The Treaty of Berlin (German-Soviet Neutrality and Nonaggression Pact) was a treaty signed on 24 April 1926 under which Germany and the Soviet Union pledged neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for five years. The ...

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.

December

* December – The

First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union The 1926 Soviet Census took place in December 1926. It was an important tool in the state-building of the USSR, provided the government with important ethnographic information, and helped in the transformation from Imperial Russian society to Sov ...

is conducted.

Births

* 11 January – Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut * 20 January – Vitaly Vorotnikov, statesman * 31 January –

Lev Russov Lev Alexandrovich Russov (russian: Ле́в Алекса́ндрович Ру́сов; 31 January 1926 – 20 February 1987) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and sculptor, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad b ...

, painter * 7 February **

Konstantin Feoktistov Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (russian: Константин Петрович Феоктистов; 7 February 1926 – 21 November 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. As a cosmonaut Feoktistov flew on Voskhod 1, the ...

, cosmonaut ** Mark Taimanov, pianist * 10 March – Ivan Filin, Olympic athlete * 24 March –

Engels Kozlov Engels Vasilievich Kozlov (russian: Э́нгельс Васи́льевич Козло́в; March 24, 1926, – November 20, 2007) was a Soviet Russian painter, People's Artist of Russia, lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg, r ...

, painter * 3 April –

Valentin Falin Valentin Mikhailovich Falin (russian: Baлeнтин Mиxaйлoвич Фaлин) (3 April 1926 – 22 February 2018) was a Soviet diplomat and politician. Early life Falin was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Inte ...

, diplomat and politician (died 2018) * 10 April –

Valeria Larina Valeria Borisovna Larina (russian: Вале́рия Бори́совна Ла́рина; April 10, 1926 – February 25, 2008) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). ...

, painter * 26 April –

Yefrem Sokolov Yefrem Yevseyevich Sokolov (russian: Ефре́м Евсе́евич Соколо́в; be, Яфрэ́м Яўсе́евіч Сакало́ў, 25 April 1926 – 5 April 2022) was a Belarusian politician, who served as a first secretary of the Com ...

, politician (died in 2022) * 22 May – Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player * 1 June –

Aleksandr Anufriyev Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Anufriyev (russian: Александр Александрович Ануфриев, May 10, 1926 – September 26, 1966) was a Soviet athlete who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in village Diyur ...

, Olympic athlete * 23 September –

Valentin Kuzin Valentin Egorevich Kuzin (russian: Валентин Егорович Кузин; September 23, 1926 in Novosibirsk, Soviet Union - August 13, 1994) was a Soviet ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Championship League with HC Dynamo Mos ...

, ice hockey player * 25 September –

Sergei Filatov Sergei Ivanovich Filatov (russian: Серге́й Иванович Филатов, 25 September 1926 – 3 April 1997) was a Soviet equestrian who competed in the mixed dressage at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics. He won individual gold in 1960 ...

, Olympic equestrian * 8 October – Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko, psychiatrist * 20 October – Gennadi Kryuchkov, Russian Baptist minister * 31 October – Saima Karimova, Russian geologist (died 2013) * 10 December – Nikolai Tishchenko, footballer

Deaths

* 24 November –

Leonid Krasin Leonid Borisovich Krasin (russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Кра́син; 15 July 1870 – 24 November 1926) was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary politician and a Soviet diplomat. In ...

, politician (born 1870)

References

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