1929 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1929 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

← 1928 1927 1926 1929 in the Soviet Union → 1930 1931 1932
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

February

• 9 February – Litvinov's Pact is signed.^[1]
• 17 February – The Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus begins.

May

• 1 May – 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake

July

• 22 July – 9 September – Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)

Births

• 11 January – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect (d. 2020)^[2]
• 14 January – Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball coach (d. 1999)
• 30 March – Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, mathematician (d. 2009)
• 18 May – Halyna Sevruk, artist (d. 2022)
• 21 May – Boris Seidenberg, actor
• 5 June – Sergo Mikoyan, historian
• 7 July – Yakov Lyubarsky, scholar
• 18 August – Anatoly Kuznetsov, writer
• 28 September – Nikolai Ryzhkov, politician (d. 2024)^[3]
• 15 October – Nikodim, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan (d. 1978)
• 22 October – Lev Yashin, footballer
• 15 December – Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov, mathematician
• 23 December – Antonina Seredina, Olympic canoeist

Deaths

• 11 January – Yakov Slashchov, White Army general (born 1885)
• 18 March – Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist (born 1889)
• not earlier than 15 April – Panteleimon Belochub, Ukrainian soldier (born 1892)

See also

• 1929 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1929