1937 in the Soviet Union

Decades:	1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;
See also:	Other events of 1937; History of the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1937 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

23–30 January – Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
June – Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
12 December – Soviet Union legislative election, 1937

Films

Bezhin Meadow – directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Lullaby – directed by Dziga Vertov
The Return of Maxim – directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
Without Dowry – directed by Yakov Protazanov

Births

Deaths

10 January – Martemyan Ryutin
30 January – Georgy Pyatakov and Nikolay Muralov
18 February – Grigory Ordzhonikidze
April 13 – Ilya Ilf
31 May – Yan Gamarnik and Nikolai Uglanov
night of 11/12 June – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Ieronim Uborevich, Iona Yakir, Vitovt Putna, Vitaly Primakov and Robert Eideman
July 13 – Mikhail Alafusov
October 30 – Avel Enukidze
November 26 – Leonid Veyner
November 28 – Ernest Appoga
Vassily Ryutin, older son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1910)
Vissarion Ryutin, younger son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1913)

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