1930 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1930 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 (until 19 December), Vyacheslav Molotov (starting 19 December)

June

 * 26 June – 13 July – 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

November

 * 25 November – 7 December – The Industrial Party Trial is held.

Births

 * 9 January
 * Pavel Kolchin, cross-country skier (d. 2010)
 * Igor Netto, footballer
 * 14 January – Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh, Azerbaijani scientist and businessman (d. 2023)
 * 26 February – Vladimir Kesarev, footballer
 * 15 March – Mariya Orlyk, teacher and politician
 * 10 April – Vladimir Yerokhin, footballer (d. 1996)
 * 16 April – Fyodor Bogdanovsky, Olympic weightlifter
 * 19 May – Leonid Kharitonov, actor
 * 31 May – Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1997)
 * 29 June – Anatoli Maslyonkin, footballer
 * 10 July – Dmitry Oboznenko, painter
 * 21 September – Sergei Popov, Olympic athlete
 * 7 October – Yuri Dubinin, diplomat (d. 2013)
 * 10 October – Medea Amiranashvili, Georgian soprano (d. 2023)
 * 21 October – Ivan Silayev, politician (d. 2023)
 * 29 December – Vladimir Ryzhkin, footballer
 * 31 December – Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, actor

Deaths

 * 14 April – Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet (born 1893)