1931 in the Soviet Union

← 1930 1929 1928 1931 in the Soviet Union → 1932 1933 1934
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1931 Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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
• 17 January - Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer
• 22 January - Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete
• 1 February - Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia
• 2 March - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union
• 23 March - Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Olympic skier
• 29 March - Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
• 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

Deaths

• 23 January - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, died in The Hague (born 1881)
• 15 August - Nigar Shikhlinskaya, first Azerbaijani nurse (born 1871 or 1878)

See also

• 1931 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1931