1935 in the Soviet Union

← 1934 1933 1932 1935 in the Soviet Union → 1936 1937 1938
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1935 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

January

• 8 January – Battle of Khalkhyn Temple.

March

• 27 March – The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance is ratified by the USSR.

April

• 24 April –
  United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, hosts the elaborately prepared Spring Ball of the Full Moon
  , which is said to have surpassed all other embassy parties in Moscow's history.

• 15 May – Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public.^[1]

June

• 26 June – The balloon USSR-1 ascends to an altitude of 16,000 meters and is forced into descent by a release of hydrogen.

July

• 24 July – First permanent children's railway is opened in Tbilisi.

August

• 25 August – The Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation is signed between Iran and the USSR.

December

• 28 December – Pravda publishes a letter from Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the USSR.

Births

• 7 January –
  Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut (d. 2014
  )
• 14 January – Yuri Zhuravlyov, mathematician
• 1 February – Vladimir Aksyonov, cosmonaut
• 24 March – Leonid Shebarshin, KGB officer (d. 2012)
• 29 April – Andrey Zaliznyak, linguist (d. 2017)
• 26 May
  • Gary Berkovich, architect
  • Allan Chumak, faith healer (d. 2017)
• 4 July – Leonid Potapov, politician (d. 2020)
• 8 July – Vitaly Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
• 19 July – Vasily Livanov, film actor, screenwriter and animator
• 26 July – Vladimir Nakoryakov, scientist (d. 2018)
• 3 August – Georgy Shonin, cosmonaut
• 2 September – Valentin Gaft, actor (d. 2020)
• 10 November – Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, astrophysicist
• 23 November – Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut
• 5 December – Yury Vlasov, weightlifter (d. 2021) ^[2]

Deaths

• 28 January – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, composer (born 1859)

See also

• 1935 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1935

References