1936 in the Soviet Union

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← 1935 1934 1933 1936 in the Soviet Union → 1937 1938 1939
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 during 1936 in the Union 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

• August 19–24 – Trial of the Sixteen^[1]

• Stalin's Great Purges begin.
• Second Five-Year Plan underway

• By the Bluest of Seas – directed by Boris Barnet
• Circus – directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
• Girl Friends – directed by Lev Arnshtam

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• 28 January - Bernara Karieva, Uzbekistani ballerina^[2]
• 2 June - Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
• 7 July - Anatoly Kirov, Russian wrestler
• 17 July - Shota Shamatava, politician (d. 2013)
• 31 August – Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist (d. 2018)
• 1 September - Valery Legasov, Russian chemist (d. 1988)
• 21 September - Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019)
• 8 October - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022)
• 30 October
  • Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
  • Margarita Voites, Estonian soprano (d. 2024)

• August 22 – Mikhail Tomsky
• August 25 – Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov

• 1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)
• List of Soviet films of 1936
• Purges
• Soviet Union