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)

See also

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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