The following lists events that happened during 1927 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
February 25 February – Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) is put into force.
May 12 May – During the Arcos Affair, British police officers raid the headquarters of ARCOS in London.
December 2–19 December – 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Births 14 January – Ivan Kalita, Olympic equestrian 16 March – Vladimir Komarov, test pilot and cosmonaut 23 March – Aleksandr Tarasov, Soviet Olympic modern pentathlete 31 March – Vladimir Ilyushin, test pilot 10 April – Alexey Ekimyan, Armenian-Russian composer 20 April – Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, Olympic wrestler 15 May – Leila Mardanshina, oil and gas operator (died 2017) 16 May – Boris Tokarev, Olympic athlete 28 May – Aleksandr Moiseyev, Olympic basketball player 3 June – Evgeny Chuprun, painter 12 June – Timir Pinegin, Olympic sailor (died 2013) 23 June Leonid Bogdanov, Soviet Olympic fencer Galina Rumiantseva, painter 26 June – Ben Turok, Belarus-born South African anti-apartheid activist, professor and politician (d. 2019) 28 June – Boris Shilkov, Olympic speed skater 23 July – Dmitry Buchkin, Soviet painter 22 August – Aleksandr Tenyagin, football player and manager (died 2008) 24 August – Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (died 2018) 15 September – Boris Gostev, Soviet Minister of Finance 1 October – Oleg Yefremov, actor 27 October – Mikhail Postnikov, mathematician 28 October – Roza Makagonova, actress (died 1995) 7 November – Piotr Litvinsky, painter 12 November – Pavel Kharin, Olympic canoeist 16 November – Inna Solovyova theatre and film critic (died 2024) 6 December – Vladimir Naumov, film director 8 December – Vladimir Shatalov, Soyuz cosmonaut 14 December – Nikolay Tatarinov, Olympic modern pentathlete
Deaths 18 May – Nikifor Begichev, Soviet seaman and explorer (born 1874) 16 June – Károly Vántus, Hungarian Communist Party politician (born 1879) 16 November – Adolph Joffe, diplomat, committed suicide (born 1883) 14 December – Julian Sochocki, Russian-Polish mathematician (born 1842)
See also 1927 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1927
References