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 The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993.- Ongoing Soviet famine of 1932–1933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 4 January – Ilia II of Georgia, Georgian Orthodox patriarach (died 2026) 6 January – Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (died 2003) 15 April - Boris Strugatsky, writer (died 2012) 27 April - Leonid Roshal, pediatrician 28 April – Dmitry Zimin, radio scientist and businessman (died 2021) 12 May - Andrei Voznesensky, poet (died 2010) 20 May – Zoya Klyuchko, entomologist (died 2016) 19 June – Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (died 1971) 9 July - Elem Klimov, filmmaker (died 2003) 10 September – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (died 2000) 13 October - Mark Zakharov, filmmaker (died 2019)

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

See also 1933 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1933 Five-year plans of the Soviet Union References