1928 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1928 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 – Alexei Rykov
Events
- October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented.
May
- 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins.
Births
- 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach
- 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania
- 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist
- 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988)
- 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor
- 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012)
- 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympic equestrian
- 2 July – Tatyana Piletskaya, actress
- 13 July – Valentin Pikul, novelist
- 15 July – Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 2012)
- 30 July – Valentin Muratov, Olympic gymnast
- 2 September – Muhammad Dandamayev, Babylonia historian (d. 2017)
- 22 November – Valentin Galochkin, sculptor
- 29 November – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
- 31 December – Tatyana Shmyga, actress
Deaths
- 7 April – Alexander Bogdanov, Bolshevik (born 1873)
See also
- 1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
- List of Soviet films of 1928
- Soviet grain procurement crisis of 1928