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1940 in the Soviet Union

Last updated October 02, 2025

The following lists events that happened during 1940 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .^[1]

Incumbents

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Mikhail Kalinin
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union — Vyacheslav Molotov

Births

January

January 11 — Andres Tarand, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
January 17 — Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova (d. 2023)
January 18 — Alexander Almetov, Soviet and Russian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
January 27 — Petru Lucinschi, 2nd President of Moldova
January 30 — Leonid Polezhayev, 1st Governor of Omsk Oblast

February

February 4 — Yuri Veksler, cinematographer (d. 1991)
February 16 — Nikolai Kondratenko, 5th Governor of Krasnodar Krai (d. 2013)
February 17 — Alexei Fridman, Soviet and Russian physicist (d. 2010)
February 19 — Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)

March

March 4 — Vladimir Morozov, sprint canoeist (d. 2023)
March 7 — Viktor Savinykh, cosmonaut
March 8 — Viktor Kalashnikov, 1st Governor of Voronezh Oblast (d. 2023)
March 9 — Larisa Golubkina, actress
March 16 — Vagif Mustafazadeh, jazz pianist and composer (d. 1979)
March 20 — Igor Ryomin, football player (d. 1991)

May

May 4 — Viktor Getmanov, football player (d. 1995)
May 9 — Inna Gulaya, theatre and cinema actress (d. 1990)
May 15 — Svetlana Svetlichnaya, Soviet and Russian actress
May 24 — Joseph Brodsky, poet and essayist (d. 1996)
May 28 — Valentin Gerasimov, 1st Governor of Kurgan Oblast

June

June 8 — Vladimir Semyonov, 2nd Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
June 13 — Valery Sudarenkov, 3rd Governor of Kaluga Oblast
June 20 — Lyudmila Marchenko, Soviet and Russian film actress (d. 1997)
June 26 — Vyacheslav Ionov, Soviet and Russian sprint canoeist (d. 2012)
June 28 — Alina Vedmid, politician and agronomist (d. 2008)^[2]
June 29 — Vyacheslav Artyomov, composer

October

October 5
- Rein Aun, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1995)
- Viktor Pavlov, actor (d. 2006)
October 9 — Valery Nosik, actor (d. 1995)
October 18 — Aleksandr Starovoitov, Soviet and Russian security services and academic officer (d. 2021)
October 20
- Hasan Hasanov, 1st Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
- Viktor Barannikov, 10th Minister of Interior Affairs of the Soviet Union (d. 1995)

November

November 21 — Natalia Makarova, ballerina

December

December 22 — Doku Zavgayev, Soviet and Russian diplomat and politician
December 24 — Saylau Serikov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kazakh SSR (d. 1991)

Deaths

January 27 — Isaac Babel, writer, journalist playwright and literary translator (b. 1894)
February 2
- Vsevolod Meyerhold, theatre director, actor and theatrical producer (b. 1874)
- Robert Eikhe, politician (b. 1890)
- Mikhail Koltsov, journalist, revolutionary and NKVD agent (b. 1898)
February 4
- Nikolai Yezhov, Head of NKVD (b. 1895)
- Mikhail Frinovsky, secret police official (b. 1898)
March 10 — Mikhail Bulgakov, writer, medical doctor and playwright (b. 1891)
August 21 — Leon Trotsky, politician and political theorist (b. 1879)
December 2 — Nikolai Koltsov, biologist (b. 1872)

References

↑ Bloch, Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton, ed. The World Over in 1940 (1941) detailed coverage of world events online free; 914pp
↑ "Ведмідь Аліна Петрівна" [Vedmid Alina Petrovna] (in Ukrainian). Leaders of the Regions. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

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1940 in the Soviet Union

Contents

Incumbents

Births

January

February

March

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

See also

References

Further reading