1936 in the Soviet Union

← 1935 1934 1933 1936 in the Soviet Union → 1937 1938 1939
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1936 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

• August 19–24 – Trial of the Sixteen

Undated

• Stalin's Great Purges begin.
• Second Five-Year Plan underway

Films

• By the Bluest of Seas – directed by Boris Barnet
• Circus – directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
• Girl Friends – directed by Lev Arnshtam

Deaths

• August 22 – Mikhail Tomsky
• August 25 – Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov

See also

• History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)
• List of Soviet films of 1936
• Purges
• Soviet Union