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← 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 during1934 in theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics.

• 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

• January 26 – February 10 —17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
• September 18 — Soviet Union joins theLeague of Nations as a permanent Board member^[1]

• Plans for the newT-34 tank are first drawn up
• Second Five Year plan underway

• January 4 —Zurab Tsereteli, Georgian painter, sculptor and architect (d.2025)
• January 7 —Viktor Pavlovich Potapov, military officer (d.2021)
• February 1 —Marina Kondratyeva, ballerina (d.2024)
• February 2 —Otar Iosseliani, Georgian film director (d.2023)
• February 7 —Murtaza Rakhimov, 1stPresident of Bashkortostan (d.2023)
• March 1 —Elmira Gafarova, 14thChairwoman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan (d.1993)
• March 9 —Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (d.1968)
• March 12 —Vladimir Stolnikov, boxer (d.1990)
• March 23 —Ludvig Faddeev, physicist and mathematician (d.2017)
• April 7 —Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, historian and screenwriter (d.2019)
• April 13 —Alexander Dzasokhov, 2ndPresident of North Ossetia
• May 4 —Tatiana Samoilova, actress (d.2014)
• May 8 —Anastasiya Kobzarenko, librarian
• May 13 —Yury Morozov, football player and coach (d.2005)
• May 14 —Nikolay Gusakov,nordic combined skier (d.1991)
• May 29 —Nikolai Bakhvalov, mathematician (d.2005)
• May 30 —Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut and aviator (d.2019)
• June 14 —Viktor Bortsov, theatrical and cinema actor (d.2008)
• June 22 —Otto Latsis, Russian journalist (d.2005)
• July 13 —Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
• August 2 —Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (d.2019)
• August 10 —Valeri Urin, football player and coach (d.2023)
• August 11 —Viktor Tolmachev, engineer (d.2018)
• August 21 —Gennadiy Aygi,Chuvash poet and translator (d.2006)
• August 29 —Gennady Kazmin, politician (d.2018)
• August 30 —Anatoly Solonitsyn, actor (d.1982)
• September 1 —Mikhail Lapshin, 4thHead of the Altai Republic (d.2006)
• September 4 —Eduard Khil, baritone (d.2012)
• September 13 —Tamara Milashkina, soprano (d.2024)
• September 16 —Tamara Manina, artistic gymnast
• September 19 —Apas Jumagulov, 3rdPrime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
• October 13 —Savely Kramarov, actor and comedian (d.1995)
• November 9 —Tengiz Sigua, 2ndPrime Minister of Georgia (d.2020)
• December 3 —Viktor Gorbatko, cosmonaut (d.2017)
• December 8 —Alisa Freindlich, actress
• December 15 —Stanislav Shushkevich, 1stChairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus (d.2022)
• December 18 —Boris Volynov, cosmonaut

• May 10 —Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, 2ndChairman of the OPGU (b.1874)
• June 11 —Lev Vygotsky, psychologist (b.1896)
• July 6 —Nestor Makhno, anarchist (b.1888)
• July 14 —Valerian Dovgalevsky, 5thPeople's Commissar of the Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian SFSR (b.1885)
• October 14 —Mikhail Matyushin, painter and composer (b.1861)
• December 1 —Sergei Kirov, 8thFirst Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b.1886)

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