1924 in the Soviet Union

← 1923 1922 1921 1924 in the Soviet Union → 1925 1926 1927
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1924 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 – Vladimir Lenin (until 2 February), Alexei Rykov (starting 2 February)

Events

January

• 31 January – The 1924 Soviet Constitution is ratified.

May

• 23–31 May – 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

August

• 3–4 August – Soviet raid on Stołpce
• 28 August – 5 September – August Uprising

September

• 15–18 September – Tatarbunary Uprising with Soviet involvement starts in Romania

Births

• 18 February – Evald Ilyenkov, writer
• 29 February – Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB
• 19 March – Lev Kulidzhanov, film director
• 18 April – Pyotr Nikolayev, Olympic shooter
• 11 May – Eugene Dynkin, mathematician
• 21 May – Boris Vasilyev, writer
• 10 July – Vladimir Sukharev, Olympic athlete
• 20 July – Tatyana Lioznova, film director
• 4 October – Georgy Shakhnazarov, Soviet-Armenian politician
• 3 November – Violetta Elvin, ballerina
• 5 December – Vladimir Dolgikh, politician
• Date unknown – Nikolai Nagibin, posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union

Deaths

• 21 January – Vladimir Lenin, USSR politician (b. 1870)
• 30 June – Praskovya Uvarova, archaeologist (b. 1840)

See also

• 1924 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1924