1937 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1937 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

← 1936 1935 1934 1937 in the Soviet Union → 1938 1939 1940
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

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 – Vyacheslav Molotov

Events

• 23–30 January – Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
• June – Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
• 18–20 June – The first transpolar flight and the first non-stop USSR-USA flight by the crew led by Valery Chkalov
• 12–14 July – A world-record non-stop flight, by the crew led by Mikhail Gromov, from Moscow to San Jacinto, California
• 12 December – Soviet Union legislative election, 1937

Films

• Bezhin Meadow – directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• Lullaby – directed by Dziga Vertov
• The Return of Maxim – directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
• Without Dowry – directed by Yakov Protazanov

Births

• February 16 — Yuri Manin, mathematician (d. 2023)
• February 19 — Boris Pugo, 9th Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union (d. 1991)
• February 25 — Yegor Stroyev, 2nd Chairman of the Federation Council
• March 16 — Valentina Parshina, agronomist and politician (d. 2020)
• April 14 — Anatoly Lysenko, television figure, journalist, director and producer (d. 2021)
• April 29 — Yevgeny Feofanov, boxer (d. 2000)
• May 7 — Sergey Ling, 3rd Prime Minister of Belarus
• May 30 — Aleksandr Demyanenko, actor (d. 1999)
• June 12 — Vladimir Arnold, mathematician (d. 2010)
• July 2 — Oleg Shenin, politician (d. 2009)
• July 7 — Valery Anisimov, wrestler
• July 8 — Lidia Klement, singer (d. 1964)
• August 10 — Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (d. 2000)
• August 20 — Uzakbay Karamanov, last Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR (d. 2017)
• August 26 — Gennady Yanayev, Vice President of the Soviet Union (d. 2010)
• September 6 — Gennady Shpalikov, poet, screenwriter and film director (d. 1974)
• September 16 — Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker (d. 2019)
• September 26 — Valentin Pavlov, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003)
• September 30 — Yuri Maslyukov, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2010)
• November 6 — Vadim Bakatin, 8th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (d. 2022)
• November 25 — Serikbolsyn Abdildin, 1st Chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan (d. 2019)
• December 24 — Viacheslav Chornovil, Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician (d. 1999)

Deaths

• 10 January – Martemyan Ryutin (born 1890)
• 30 January
  • Georgy Pyatakov (born 1890)
  • Nikolay Muralov (born 1877)
• 18 February – Grigory Ordzhonikidze (born 1886)
• 13 April – Ilya Ilf (born 1897)
• 31 May
  • Yan Gamarnik (born 1894)
  • Nikolai Uglanov (born 1886)
• 12 June
  • Mikhail Tukhachevsky (born 1893)
  • Ieronim Uborevich (born 1896)
  • Iona Yakir (born 1896)
  • Vitovt Putna (born 1893)
  • Vitaly Primakov (born 1897)
  • Robert Eideman (born 1895)
  • Maria Ulyanova, younger sister of Vladimir Lenin (born 1878)
• 13 July – Mikhail Alafusov (born 1891)
• 30 October – Avel Enukidze (born 1877)
• 26 November – Leonid Veyner (born 1897)
• 28 November – Ernest Appoga (born 1898)
• Vassily Ryutin, older son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1910)
• Vissarion Ryutin, younger son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1913)

See also

• 1937 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1937