1931 in the Soviet Union

Updated on Nov 17, 2023

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Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s See also: Other events of 1931 Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

March

1–8 March – The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held.

27 April – 1931 Zangezur earthquake

1 January – Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov, Olympic shooter

17 January – Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer

22 January – Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete

1 February – Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia

2 March – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union

23 March – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Olympic skier

29 March – Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut

27 April – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist

25 May – Georgy Grechko, cosmonaut

25 June – Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin, mathematician

27 June – Anatoli Ilyin, footballer

24 September – Mark Midler, Olympic fencer

28 September – Emma Yefimova, Olympic fencer

23 January – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, died in The Hague (born 1881)

15 August – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, first Azerbaijani nurse (born 1871 or 1878)

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