1926 in the Soviet Union

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* 1925
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the Soviet Union |

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* 1930s
* 1940s

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* History of the Soviet Union
* List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1926 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

## Incumbents

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* 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

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### January

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* 29 January – Soviet law changes and the size of inheritable estates becomes effectively unlimited.[1]

### April

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* 24 April – The Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed.

### July

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* July – The "Declaration of the 13" was written by Kamenev, Krupskaya, Trotsky, Zinoviev, along with 9 other contributors. The declaration was a denouncement of the economic policies of the left and the attacks on freedom the writers felt would lead to the destruction of the Bolshevik Revolution.[2]

### December

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* December – The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union is conducted.

## Births

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* 11 January – Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut
* 20 January – Vitaly Vorotnikov, statesman
* 31 January – Lev Russov, painter
* 7 February
* Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
* Mark Taimanov, pianist
* 10 March – Ivan Filin, Olympic athlete
* 24 March – Engels Kozlov, painter
* 3 April – Valentin Falin, diplomat and politician (died 2018)
* 10 April – Valeria Larina, painter
* 26 April – Yefrem Sokolov, politician (died in 2022)
* 22 May – Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player
* 1 June – Aleksandr Anufriyev, Olympic athlete
* 23 September – Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player
* 25 September – Sergei Filatov, Olympic equestrian
* 8 October – Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko, psychiatrist
* 20 October – Gennadi Kryuchkov, Russian Baptist minister
* 31 October – Saima Karimova, Russian geologist (died 2013)[3]
* 10 December – Nikolai Tishchenko, footballer

## Deaths

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* 5 February \- Theodor Nette, Soviet diplomatic courier of NKID (born 1896)
* 20 July \- Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician (born 1877)
* 24 November – Leonid Krasin, politician ( born 1870)
* 17 March - Aleksei Brusilov, General during WW1 and the Russian Civil War (born 1853)

## See also

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* List of Soviet films of 1926
* 1926 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

## References

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1. ^ Hazard, John (June 1945). "Soviet Property Law". Cornell Law Review. 30 (4): 482 - via Law Commons.
2. ^ McCauley, Martin (2008). Stalin and Stalinism (Revised, third ed.). Harlow, England: Pearson Longman. ISBN 9781405874366. OCLC 191898287.
3. ^ Levchikova, Lilia. "Каримова Саима Сафиевна" [Karimova Saima Safievna] (in Russian). Yakutsk-Sakha Information Agency. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2023.

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