1924 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1924 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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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 – Vladimir Lenin (until 2 February), Alexei Rykov (starting 2 February)
Events
January
- 19 January – failed attempt to free capital of Khiva from Bolsheviks
- 26 January – started Second All-Union Congress of Soviets in Moscow
- 26 January – Petrograd is renamed into Leningrad
- 27 January – Lenin is buried in the Lenin's Mausoleum at the Red Square
- 29 January – a three-day plenary session of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted decision on "Lenin's call to the party" (Lenin Enrolment)
- 31 January – The 1924 Soviet Constitution is ratified by the Congress of Soviets
February

"Long live the unity of the oppressed labourers of the East with the workers of all the world in the struggle for the socialism!", a 1924 poster in the Uzbek language
- 1 February – United Kingdom recognized the Soviet Union
- 2 February – ended Second All-Union Congress of Soviets in Moscow
- Alexei Rykov has been appointment as the Chairman of Sovnarkom
- 7 February – Italy (Benito Mussolini) recognized the Soviet Union
- 15 February – began the "Lenin Enrolment" into the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- 25 February – plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bukhara approved the national delimitation of the Central Asia (National delimitation in the Soviet Union)
March
- 3 March — Executive Bureau of the Central Committee of the Khorezm Communist Party approved the initiative on the national delimitation of the Central Asia
- 10 March — Central Committee of the Turkestan Communist Party approved the initiative on the national delimitation of the Central Asia
- In Vienna, Austria was opened a bilateral conference between Romania and the Soviet Union on the "Bessarabian issue"
April
- 2 April — Romanian delegation rejected the Soviet proposal to hold a plebiscite a plebiscite in Bessarabia and interrupted further negotiations with the Soviet Union
- All-Russian Central Executive Committee awarded "proletariat of Tashkent" with Order of the Red Banner
May
June
- 12 June – Politburo of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted a resolution on national delimitation in the Central Asia
July
- 8-22 July – 3rd Congress of Profintern in Moscow
August
- 3–4 August – Soviet raid on Stołpce
- 28 August – 5 September – August Uprising in Georgia, Transcaucasian SFSR
September
- 15–18 September – Tatarbunary Uprising with Soviet involvement starts in Romania
- 23 September – 1924 Leningrad flooding
October
- 12 October – on territory of Ukraine established the Moldavian ASSR centered in Balta on decision of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (8th convocation)
- 14 October – All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted decision on establishing of autonomous regions within the Turkestan ASSR (Tajik ASSR and Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast)
- 27 October – instead of Turkestan ASSR, Bukharan SSR, and Khorezm SSR were formed Uzbek SSR (centered in Bukhara) and Turkmen SSR (Poltoratsk – Ashgabat)
November
- 14 November – Yekaterinburg renamed into Sverdlovsk
December
- 19 December – on decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Volga German Autonomous Oblast transformed into Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Births
- 13 February – Ivan Mozgovenko, clarinetist and music teacher (died 2021)
- 18 February – Evald Ilyenkov, writer (died 1979)
- 29 February – Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB (died 2007)
- 19 March – Lev Kulidzhanov, film director (died 2002)
- 18 April – Pyotr Nikolayev, Olympic shooter (died 2000)
- 11 May – Eugene Dynkin, mathematician (died 2014)
- 21 May – Boris Vasilyev, writer (died 2013)
- 10 July – Vladimir Sukharev, Olympic athlete (died 1997)
- 20 July – Tatyana Lioznova, film director (died 2011)
- 4 October – Georgy Shakhnazarov, Soviet-Armenian politician (died 2001)
- 3 November – Violetta Elvin, ballerina
- 5 December – Vladimir Dolgikh, politician
- Date unknown – Nikolai Nagibin, posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union
Deaths
- 21 January – Vladimir Lenin, USSR politician (b. 1870)
- 30 June – Praskovya Uvarova, archaeologist (b. 1840)
References
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