1926 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1926 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

 * 29 January – Soviet law changes and the size of inheritable estates becomes effectively unlimited.

April

 * 24 April – The Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed.

July

 * July – The "Declaration of the 13" was written by Kamenev, Krupskaya, Trotsky, Zinoviev, along with 9 other contributors. The declaration was a denouncement of the economic policies of the right and the attacks on freedom the writers felt would lead to the destruction of the Bolshevik Revolution.

December

 * December – The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union is conducted.

Births

 * 11 January – Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut
 * 20 January – Vitaly Vorotnikov, statesman
 * 31 January – Lev Russov, painter
 * 7 February
 * Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
 * Mark Taimanov, pianist
 * 10 March – Ivan Filin, Olympic athlete
 * 24 March – Engels Kozlov, painter
 * 3 April – Valentin Falin, diplomat and politician (died 2018)
 * 10 April – Valeria Larina, painter
 * 26 April – Yefrem Sokolov, politician (died in 2022)
 * 22 May – Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player
 * 1 June – Aleksandr Anufriyev, Olympic athlete
 * 23 September – Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player
 * 25 September – Sergei Filatov, Olympic equestrian
 * 8 October – Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko, psychiatrist
 * 20 October – Gennadi Kryuchkov, Russian Baptist minister
 * 31 October – Saima Karimova, Russian geologist (died 2013)
 * 10 December – Nikolai Tishchenko, footballer

Deaths

 * 5 February - Theodor Nette, Soviet diplomatic courier of NKID (born 1896)
 * 20 July - Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician (born 1877)
 * 24 November – Leonid Krasin, politician ( born 1870)