1938 in the Soviet Union

← 1937 1936 1935 1938 in the Soviet Union → 1939 1940 1941
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 1938 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin
• Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov

Events

• March – Trial of the Twenty-One
• July 29-August 11 – Battle of Lake Khasan

Births

• January 2 – Anatoly Samoilenko, Ukrainian mathematician (died 2020)
• January 18 – Stepan Topal, Moldovan politician (died 2018)
• February 24 – Emma Gapchenko, archer
• June 24 – Boris Lagutin, boxer
• July 9 – Liya Akhedzhakova, Russian actress
• July 10 – Vera Shebeko, Russian anchorwoman
• July 14 – Lillian Malkina, Russian actress
• July 18 – Valery Kerdemelidi, Russian artistic gymnast
• July 21 – Vladimir Radionov, Russian football player, coach and official
• July 22 – Mark Rakita, Soviet-era Russian sabreur and coach
• November 11 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (died 2015)

Deaths

• March 15 – Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Nikolay Krestinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, Arkady Rosengolts, Vladimir Ivanovich Ivanov, Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov, Hryhoriy Hrynko, Fayzulla Khodzhayev and Vasily Sharangovich
• June 20 – Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (shot)
• July 28 – Yakov Alksnis
• July 29 – Pavel Dybenko
• November 9 – Vasily Blyukher

See also

• 1938 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1938