The following lists events that happened during 1931 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 March 1–8 March – The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held.
April 27 April – 1931 Zangezur earthquake
Births 1 January – Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov, Olympic shooter (died 2001) 17 January – Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer (died 2013) 21 January – Tatjana Michaylovna Zacharova, production worker, author and politician 22 January – Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete (died 2024) 1 February – Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia (died 2007) 2 March – Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union (died 2022) 13 March – Alisa Aksyonova, museum director 23 March – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Olympic skier 29 March – Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut 7 April – Lyubov Vorona, Ukrainian farm worker and politician (died 2021) 27 April – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist 25 May – Georgy Grechko, cosmonaut 25 June – Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin, mathematician 27 June – Anatoli Ilyin, footballer 24 September – Mark Midler, Olympic fencer 28 September – Emma Yefimova, Olympic fencer 24 October – Sofia Gubaidulina, composer (died 2025) 1 November – Dmitri Bashkirov, pianist (died 2021) 21 November – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian physicist (died 1985)
Deaths 23 January – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, died in The Hague (born 1881) 15 August – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, first Azerbaijani nurse (born 1871 or 1878)Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia (1987), vol. 10, p. 551
See also 1931 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1931
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