1936 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1936 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

 * August 19–24 – Trial of the Sixteen

Undated

 * Stalin's Great Purges begin.
 * Second Five-Year Plan underway

Films

 * By the Bluest of Seas – directed by Boris Barnet
 * Circus – directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
 * Girl Friends – directed by Lev Arnshtam

Births

 * 28 January - Bernara Karieva, Uzbekistani ballerina
 * 2 June - Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
 * 7 July - Anatoly Kirov, Russian wrestler
 * 17 July - Shota Shamatava, politician (d. 2013)
 * 31 August – Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist (d. 2018)
 * 1 September - Valery Legasov, Russian chemist (d. 1988)
 * 21 September - Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019)
 * 8 October - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022)
 * 30 October
 * Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
 * Margarita Voites, Estonian soprano (d. 2024)

Deaths

 * August 22 – Mikhail Tomsky
 * August 25 – Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov