1922 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1922 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

← 1921 1920 1919 1922 in the Soviet Union → 1923 1924 1925
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin (starting 3 April)
• Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin (starting 30 December)
• Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vladimir Lenin (starting 30 December)

Events

February

• 5-14 February – Battle of Volochayevka^[1]

March

• 27 March – 2 April – 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Fall

Mass expulsions of intellectuals on the so-called Philosophers' ships and later by rail.

December

• 30 December – First All-Union Congress of Soviets
  • 30 December – Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
• 30 December – The Declaration of the Creation of the USSR is ratified.
• 30 December – Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Births

• 5 January – Aleksey Gushchin, Olympic shooting champion (died 1986)
• 7 March – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
• 20 March – Irina Antonova, art historian (died 2020)
• 30 March – Konstantin Kabanov, Soviet Air Force pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• 1 December – Vsevolod Bobrov, Olympic footballer
• 2 December – Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Olympic gymnast
• 12 December – Vasily Borisov, Olympic shooting champion (died 2003)
• 23 December – Sofya Kondakova, speed skater
• 27 December – Yevheniia Kucherenko, pedagogue^[2]
• date unknown – Ilya Timofeyevich Osipov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union

See also

• 1922 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1922