1925 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1925 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
January
- 20 January – The Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention is signed.[1]
 
December
- 18–31 December – 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)[2]
 
Sports
- 10 November – 8 December – Moscow 1925 chess tournament[3]
 
Births
- 2 January – Irina Arkhipova, singer
 - 11 January – Viktor Avdyushko, actor
 - 15 January – August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017)
 - 30 January – Pyotr Kuznetsov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
 - 8 March – Efim Geller, chess Grandmaster
 - 26 June – Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut
 - 13 September – Sergei Salnikov, footballer
 - 20 October – Firudin Shushinski, musicologist
 - 24 November – Mikhail Khvatkov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
 - 12 December - Alexander Khmelik, playwright and director (d. 2001)
 - 21 December – Tatyana Karakashyants, Olympic diver
 
Deaths
- 6 August - Grigory Kotovsky, Soviet military and political activist, commander of the Red Army and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1881)
 - 31 October - Mikhail Frunze, Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist (born 1885)
 - 28 December - Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet of the Silver Age of Russian poetry (born 1895)
 
See also
References
- ^ Slusser, Robert M.; Triska, Jan F. (1959). A Calendar of Soviet Treaties 1917-1957. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 49.
 - ^ A.A. Soleviev, S"ezdy i konferentsii KPSS: Spravochnik [Congresses and Conferences of the KPSS: A Handbook]. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Politicheskoi Literatury, 1986; p. 202.
 - ^ "Early Soviet Championships". Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
 
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