1937 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1937 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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
- 23–30 January – Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
- June – Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
- 18-20 June - The first transpolar flight and the first non-stop USSR-USA flight by the crew led by Valery Chkalov
- 12–14 July – A world-record non-stop flight, by the crew led by Mikhail Gromov, from Moscow to San Jacinto, California
- 12 December – Soviet Union legislative election, 1937
Films
- Bezhin Meadow – directed by Sergei Eisenstein
- Lullaby – directed by Dziga Vertov
- The Return of Maxim – directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
- Without Dowry – directed by Yakov Protazanov
Births
- 7 July – Valery Anisimov, wrestler
- September – Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker
Deaths
- 10 January – Martemyan Ryutin
- 30 January – Georgy Pyatakov and Nikolay Muralov
- 18 February – Grigory Ordzhonikidze
- April 13 – Ilya Ilf
- 31 May – Yan Gamarnik and Nikolai Uglanov
- night of 11/12 June – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Ieronim Uborevich, Iona Yakir, Vitovt Putna, Vitaly Primakov and Robert Eideman
- July 13 – Mikhail Alafusov
- October 30 – Avel Enukidze
- November 26 – Leonid Veyner
- November 28 – Ernest Appoga
- Vassily Ryutin, older son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1910)
- Vissarion Ryutin, younger son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1913)
