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Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	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

• 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

• 29 January – Soviet law changes and the size of inheritable estates becomes effectively unlimited.

April

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

July

• 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.

December

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

Births

• 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)
• 10 December – Nikolai Tishchenko, footballer

Deaths

• 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

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

References

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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