1925 in the Soviet Union

1925
in
the Soviet Union

Decades:
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
See also:

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

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

  • List of Soviet films of 1925
  • 1925 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

  1. ^ Slusser, Robert M.; Triska, Jan F. (1959). A Calendar of Soviet Treaties 1917-1957. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 49.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Early Soviet Championships". Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2008-10-17.