1930 in the Soviet Union

← 1929 1928 1927 1930 in the Soviet Union → 1931 1932 1933
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1930 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 (until 19 December), Vyacheslav Molotov (starting 19 December)

Events

June

• 26 June – 13 July – 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

November

• 25 November – 7 December – The Industrial Party Trial is held.

Births

• 9 January
  • Pavel Kolchin, cross-country skier (d. 2010)^[1]
  • Igor Netto, footballer^[2]
• 14 January – Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh, Azerbaijani scientist and businessman (d. 2023)^[3]
• 26 February – Vladimir Kesarev, footballer
• 15 March – Mariya Orlyk, teacher and politician^[4]
• 10 April – Vladimir Yerokhin, footballer (d. 1996)^[5]
• 16 April – Fyodor Bogdanovsky, Olympic weightlifter^[6]
• 19 May – Leonid Kharitonov, actor^[7]
• 31 May – Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1997)^[8]
• 29 June – Anatoli Maslyonkin, footballer
• 10 July – Dmitry Oboznenko, painter
• 21 September – Sergei Popov, Olympic athlete^[9]
• 7 October – Yuri Dubinin, diplomat (d. 2013)
• 10 October – Medea Amiranashvili, Georgian soprano (d. 2023)^[10]
• 21 October – Ivan Silayev, politician (d. 2023)
• 29 December – Vladimir Ryzhkin, footballer^[11]
• 31 December – Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, actor^[12]

Deaths

• 14 April – Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet (born 1893)

See also

• 1930 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1930

References