1923 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1923 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 – Vladimir Lenin

April

 * 17–25 April – 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

June

 * 16 June – The Yakut Revolt ends with the defeat of the White Army.

October

 * 15 October – The Declaration of 46 is sent.

Births

 * 9 January – Eduard Kolmanovsky, People's Artist of the USSR
 * 11 August – Maxim Grabovenko, Hero of the Soviet Union
 * 13 September – Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Hero of the Soviet Union
 * 26 September – Aleksandr Alov, film director
 * 29 September – Aleksei Fedorovich Filippov, mathematician
 * 31 October – Ivan Otmakhov, Hero of the Soviet Union
 * 9 November – Viktor Turbin, Hero of the Soviet Union
 * 11 November – Isaac Trachtenberg, Hygienist
 * 22 November – Yury Nikandrov, Olympic shooter
 * 29 November – Inna Zubkovskaya, ballerina
 * 14 December – Akhsarbek Abaev, Hero of the Soviet Union