1933 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1933 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
 * People's Commissar for military and naval affairs- Kliment Voroshilov
 * People's Commissar for heavy industry- Sergo Ordzhonikidze
 * People's Commissar for Ways of Communication- Andrey Andreyev
 * First Secretary of Moscow urban committee of AUCP(b) - Lazar Kaganovich

Events

 * 2 August - White Sea–Baltic Canal opened.
 * 5 September - Tupolev ANT-7 crash near Podolsk, which led to a complete reorganization of air traffic in the Soviet Union.

Undated

 * Second Five Year Plan Begins
 * The Holodomor famine takes place in Ukraine.
 * Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.

Ongoing

 * Soviet famine of 1932–1933

Births

 * 6 January – Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut
 * 15 April - Boris Strugatsky, writer
 * 27 April - Leonid Roshal, pediatrician
 * 28 April – Dmitry Zimin, radio scientist and businessman (died 2021)
 * 12 May - Andrei Voznesensky, poet
 * 20 May – Zoya Klyuchko, entomologist
 * 19 June – Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
 * 9 July - Elem Klimov, filmmaker
 * 10 September – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
 * 13 October - Mark Zakharov, filmmaker

Deaths

 * 1 March – Uładzimir Zylka, poet
 * 7 July – Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian communist leader
 * 20 August - Vasily Boldyrev, WWI and Russian Civil War commander
 * 8 October - Leonid Vesnin, architect