1927 in the Soviet Union

Decades:	1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	History of Russia; Timeline of Russian history; List of years in Russia;

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	History of the Soviet Union; List of years in the Soviet Union;

The following lists events that happened during 1927 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

Events

February

25 February – Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) is put into force.

May

12 May – During the Arcos Affair, British police officers raid the headquarters of ARCOS in London.

December

2–19 December – 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)^[1]

Births

14 January – Ivan Kalita, Olympic equestrian
16 March – Vladimir Komarov, test pilot and cosmonaut
23 March – Aleksandr Tarasov, Soviet Olympic modern pentathlete
31 March – Vladimir Ilyushin, test pilot
10 April – Alexey Ekimyan, Armenian-Russian composer
20 April – Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, Olympic wrestler
15 May – Leila Mardanshina, oil and gas operator (died 2017)
16 May – Boris Tokarev, Olympic athlete
28 May – Aleksandr Moiseyev, Olympic basketball player
3 June – Evgeny Chuprun, painter
12 June – Timir Pinegin, Olympic sailor (died 2013)
23 June
- Leonid Bogdanov, Soviet Olympic fencer
- Galina Rumiantseva, painter
26 June – Ben Turok, Belarus-born South African anti-apartheid activist, professor and politician (d. 2019)
28 June – Boris Shilkov, Olympic speed skater
23 July – Dmitry Buchkin, Soviet painter
22 August – Aleksandr Tenyagin, football player and manager (died 2008)
24 August – Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (died 2018)
15 September – Boris Gostev, Soviet Minister of Finance
1 October – Oleg Yefremov, actor
27 October – Mikhail Postnikov, mathematician
28 October – Roza Makagonova, actress
7 November – Piotr Litvinsky, painter
12 November – Pavel Kharin, Olympic canoeist
6 December – Vladimir Naumov, film director
8 December – Vladimir Shatalov, Soyuz cosmonaut
14 December – Nikolay Tatarinov, Olympic modern pentathlete

Deaths

18 May – Nikifor Begichev, Soviet seaman and explorer (born 1874)
16 June – Károly Vántus, Hungarian Communist Party politician (born 1879)
16 November – Adolph Joffe, diplomat, committed suicide (born 1883)
14 December – Julian Sochocki, Russian-Polish mathematician (born 1842)

References

↑ Mccauley, Martin (2013). Stalin and Stalinism: Revised 3rd Edition. New York: Routledge. pp. Chronology. ISBN 978-1-4058-7436-6.

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[1] Mccauley, Martin (2013). Stalin and Stalinism: Revised 3rd Edition. New York: Routledge. pp. Chronology. ISBN 978-1-4058-7436-6.

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