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The following lists events that happened during 1937 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 – 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
- 16 February – Yuri Manin, mathematician (died 2023)
- 16 March – Valentina Parshina, agronomist and politician (died 2020)[1]
- 7 July – Valery Anisimov, wrestler
- September – Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker (died 2019)
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
References
- ^ Malashenkov, Evgeny. "Паршина Валентина Романовна" [Parshina Valentina Romanovna] (in Russian). Homeland heroes. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
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