1929 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1929 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

February

 * 9 February – Litvinov's Pact is signed.
 * 17 February – The Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus begins.

May

 * 1 May – 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake

July

 * 22 July – 9 September – Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)

Births

 * 11 January – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect (d. 2020)
 * 14 January – Vladimir Kondrashin, basketball coach (d. 1999)
 * 30 March – Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, mathematician (d. 2009)
 * 18 May – Halyna Sevruk, artist (d. 2022)
 * 21 May – Boris Seidenberg, actor
 * 5 June – Sergo Mikoyan, historian
 * 7 July – Yakov Lyubarsky, scholar
 * 18 August – Anatoly Kuznetsov, writer
 * 28 September – Nikolai Ryzhkov, politician (d. 2024)
 * 15 October – Nikodim, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan (d. 1978)
 * 22 October – Lev Yashin, footballer
 * 15 December – Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov, mathematician
 * 23 December – Antonina Seredina, Olympic canoeist

Deaths

 * 11 January – Yakov Slashchov, White Army general (born 1885)
 * 18 March – Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist (born 1889)
 * not earlier than 15 April – Panteleimon Belochub, Ukrainian soldier (born 1892)