1934 in the Soviet Union

← 1933 1932 1931 1934 in the Soviet Union → 1935 1936 1937
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 1934 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

Undated

• Plans for the new T-34 tank are first drawn up
• Second Five Year plan underway
• 26 Jan – 10 Feb – 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Births

• 9 March – Yuri Gagarin, first man in space
• 29 August – Gennady Kazmin, politician (d. 2018)
• 4 September – Eduard Khil, singer
• 16 September – Tamara Manina, artistic gymnast

Deaths

• 6 July – Nestor Makhno, anarchist
• 1 December – Sergei Kirov

See also

• 1934 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1934
• T-34
• Soviet Union