1922 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1922 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

 * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin (starting 3 April)
 * Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin (starting 30 December)
 * Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vladimir Lenin (starting 30 December)

February

 * 5-14 February – Battle of Volochayevka

March

 * 27 March – 2 April – 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Fall
Mass expulsions of intellectuals on the so-called Philosophers' ships and later by rail.

December

 * 30 December – First All-Union Congress of Soviets
 * 30 December – Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
 * 30 December – The Declaration of the Creation of the USSR is ratified.
 * 30 December – Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Births

 * 5 January – Aleksey Gushchin, Olympic shooting champion (died 1986)
 * 7 March – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
 * 20 March – Irina Antonova, art historian (died 2020)
 * 30 March – Konstantin Kabanov, Soviet Air Force pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
 * 1 December – Vsevolod Bobrov, Olympic footballer
 * 2 December – Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Olympic gymnast
 * 12 December – Vasily Borisov, Olympic shooting champion (died 2003)
 * 23 December – Sofya Kondakova, speed skater
 * 27 December – Yevheniia Kucherenko, pedagogue
 * date unknown – Ilya Timofeyevich Osipov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union