1925 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1925 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 – Alexei Rykov

January

 * 20 January – The Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention is signed.

December

 * 18–31 December – 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Sports

 * 10 November – 8 December – Moscow 1925 chess tournament

Births

 * 2 January – Irina Arkhipova, singer
 * 11 January – Viktor Avdyushko, actor
 * 15 January – August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017)
 * 30 January – Pyotr Kuznetsov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
 * 8 March – Efim Geller, chess Grandmaster
 * 26 June – Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut
 * 13 September – Sergei Salnikov, footballer
 * 20 October – Firudin Shushinski, musicologist
 * 24 November – Mikhail Khvatkov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
 * 12 December - Alexander Khmelik, playwright and director (d. 2001)
 * 21 December – Tatyana Karakashyants, Olympic diver

Deaths

 * 6 August - Grigory Kotovsky, Soviet military and political activist, commander of the Red Army and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1881)
 * 31 October - Mikhail Frunze, Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist (born 1885)
 * 28 December - Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet of the Silver Age of Russian poetry (born 1895)