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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