1933 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1933 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
[edit]- 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
- People's Commissar for military and naval affairs- Kliment Voroshilov
- People's Commissar for heavy industry- Sergo Ordzhonikidze
- People's Commissar for Ways of Communication- Andrey Andreyev
- First Secretary of Moscow urban committee of AUCP(b) - Lazar Kaganovich
Events
[edit]- 2 August - White Sea–Baltic Canal opened.
- 5 September - Tupolev ANT-7 crash near Podolsk, which led to a complete reorganization of air traffic in the Soviet Union.
Undated
[edit]- Second Five Year Plan Begins
- The Holodomor famine takes place in Ukraine.
- Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.[1]
Ongoing
[edit]Births
[edit]- 6 January – Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut
- 15 April - Boris Strugatsky, writer
- 27 April - Leonid Roshal, pediatrician
- 28 April – Dmitry Zimin, radio scientist and businessman (died 2021)
- 12 May - Andrei Voznesensky, poet
- 20 May – Zoya Klyuchko, entomologist
- 19 June – Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
- 9 July - Elem Klimov, filmmaker
- 10 September – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
- 13 October - Mark Zakharov, filmmaker
Deaths
[edit]- 1 March – Uładzimir Zylka, poet
- 7 July – Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian communist leader
- 20 August - Vasily Boldyrev, WWI and Russian Civil War commander
- 8 October - Leonid Vesnin, architect
See also
[edit]- 1933 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
- List of Soviet films of 1933
- Five-year plans of the Soviet Union
References
[edit]- ^ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. "Refworld – Russia: Update to RUS13194 of 16 February 1993 on the treatment of homosexuals". Refworld. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- "Anne Buetikofer – Homosexuality in the Soviet Union and in today's Russia". Savanne.ch. 11 April 1999. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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