The following lists events that happened during 1934 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 – Vyacheslav Molotov

1934 in the Soviet Union

Events

26 Jan–10 Feb – 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) 18 September – Soviet Union joins the League of Nations as a permanent Board member

1934 in the Soviet Union

Undated

Plans for the new T-34 tank are first drawn up

Second Five Year plan underway

Publications

Births

7 January – Viktor Pavlovich Potapov, military officer (d. 2021) 9 March – Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (d. 1968) 7 April – Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, historian and screenwriter (d. 2019) 8 May – Anastasiya Kobzarenko, librarian 29 August – Gennady Kazmin, politician (d. 2018) 4 September – Eduard Khil, baritone (d. 2012) 16 September – Tamara Manina, artistic gymnast 8 December – Alisa Freindlich, actress

1934 in the Soviet Union

Deaths

6 July – Nestor Makhno, anarchist, in exile (b. 1888) 1 December – Sergei Kirov, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician, assassinated (b. 1886)

References

See also

1934 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

List of Soviet films of 1934

T-34

Soviet Union

1930s in the Soviet Union