1928 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1928 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

Events

 * October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented.

May

 * 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins.

Births

 * 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach
 * 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania
 * 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist
 * 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988)
 * 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021)
 * 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor
 * 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012)
 * 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympic equestrian
 * 2 July – Tatyana Piletskaya, actress
 * 13 July – Valentin Pikul, novelist
 * 15 July – Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 2012)
 * 30 July – Valentin Muratov, Olympic gymnast
 * 2 September – Muhammad Dandamayev, Babylonia historian (d. 2017)
 * 22 November – Valentin Galochkin, sculptor
 * 29 November – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
 * 31 December – Tatyana Shmyga, actress

Deaths

 * 7 April – Alexander Bogdanov, Bolshevik (born 1873)