1925 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1925 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

← 1924 1923 1922 1925 in the Soviet Union → 1926 1927 1928
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
• 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

• 20 January – The Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention is signed.^[1]

December

• 18–31 December – 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)^[2]

Sports

• 10 November – 8 December – Moscow 1925 chess tournament^[3]

Births

• 2 January – Irina Arkhipova, singer
• 11 January – Viktor Avdyushko, actor
• 15 January – August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017)
• 30 January – Pyotr Kuznetsov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
• 8 March – Efim Geller, chess Grandmaster
• 26 June – Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut
• 13 September – Sergei Salnikov, footballer
• 20 October – Firudin Shushinski, musicologist
• 24 November – Mikhail Khvatkov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
• 12 December - Alexander Khmelik, playwright and director (d. 2001)
• 21 December – Tatyana Karakashyants, Olympic diver

Deaths

• 6 August - Grigory Kotovsky, Soviet military and political activist, commander of the Red Army and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1881)
• 31 October - Mikhail Frunze, Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist (born 1885)
• 28 December - Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet of the Silver Age of Russian poetry (born 1895)

See also

• List of Soviet films of 1925
• 1925 in fine arts of the Soviet Union