1932 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1932 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 – Vyacheslav Molotov

Events

 * Soviet famine of 1932–33

January

 * 21 January – The Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

July

 * 25 July – The Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

August

 * 7 August – The Law of Spikelets is enacted.

September

 * 23 September – Ryutin Affair: Martemyan Ryutin and the others in the Union of Marxists-Leninists are arrested.

Births

 * 3 January – Valentina Gaganova, textile worker and politician (died 2010).
 * 4 January – Roman Personov, scientist (died 2002)
 * 10 January – Iskra Babich, film director
 * 25 January – Nikolay Anikin, skier
 * 27 January
 * Rimma Kazakova, poet
 * Boris Shakhlin, Olympic gymnast
 * 22 February – Victor Cherkashin, KGB counter-intelligence officer
 * 3 May – Maria Itkina, Olympic sprinter (died 2020)
 * 15 May – Arkady Volsky, politician
 * 6 June – Tamara Novikova, female cyclist
 * 13 June – Boris Katalimov, Chess International Master
 * 2 August – Vladimir Struzhanov, swimmer
 * 20 August – Vasily Aksyonov, novelist
 * 18 September – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut