1934 in the Soviet Union

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

  Publications

Births

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

  Deaths

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