The following lists events that happened during 1929 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 9 February – Litvinov's Pact is signed. 17 February – The Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus begins. May 1 May – 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake July 22 July – 9 September – Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
Births 11 January – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect (d. 2020) 14 January – Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball coach (d. 1999) 23 January – Filaret Denysenko, Ukrainian religious leader (d. 2026) 30 March – Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, mathematician (d. 2009) 18 May – Halyna Sevruk, artist (d. 2022) 21 May – Boris Seidenberg, actor 5 June – Sergo Mikoyan, historian 7 July – Yakov Lyubarsky, scholar 18 August – Anatoly Kuznetsov, writer 23 September – Viktor Sarianidi, archaeologist (d. 2013) 28 September – Nikolai Ryzhkov, politician (d. 2024)Former Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov Dies At 94 15 October – Nikodim, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan (d. 1978) 22 October – Lev Yashin, footballer 22 November – Maksuma Melikova, Azerbaijani legal scientist 15 December – Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov, mathematician 23 December – Antonina Seredina, Olympic canoeist
Deaths 11 January – Yakov Slashchov, White Army general (born 1885) 18 March – Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist (born 1889) not earlier than 15 April – Panteleimon Belochub, Ukrainian soldier (born 1892)
See also 1929 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1929
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