1932 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1932 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

← 1931 1930 1929 1932 in the Soviet Union → 1933 1934 1935
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
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 – Vyacheslav Molotov

Events

• Soviet famine of 1932–33

January

• 21 January – The Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

July

• 25 July – The Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

August

• 7 August – The Law of Spikelets is enacted.

September

• 23 September – Ryutin Affair: Martemyan Ryutin and others in the Union of Marxists-Leninists are arrested.

Births

• 3 January – Valentina Gaganova, textile worker and politician (died 2010).^[1]
• 4 January – Roman Personov, scientist (died 2002)
• 10 January – Iskra Babich, film director
• 25 January – Nikolay Anikin, skier
• 27 January
  • Rimma Kazakova, poet
  • Boris Shakhlin, Olympic gymnast
• 22 February – Victor Cherkashin, KGB counter-intelligence officer
• 4 April – Andrei Tarkovsky, film director (died 1986)
• 3 May – Maria Itkina, Olympic sprinter (died 2020)
• 15 May – Arkady Volsky, politician
• 6 June – Tamara Novikova, female cyclist
• 13 June – Boris Katalimov, Chess International Master
• 16 June – Alla Osipenko, ballerina (died 2025)
• 20 June – Robert Rozhdestvensky, poet (died 1994)
• 2 August – Vladimir Struzhanov, swimmer
• 20 August – Vasily Aksyonov, novelist
• 18 September – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut
• 16 December – Rodion Shchedrin, composer (died 2025)

Deaths

• 18 January – Dmitry Shcherbachev, general (born 1857)
• 9 November – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (born 1901)

See also

• 1932 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1932