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 SixteenConquest, Robert (1990), The Great Terror: A Reassessment. Oxford University Press. . p. 91.
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) 15 June - Roman Kofman, Ukrainian musician (d. 2026) 22 June - Izatullo Khayoyev, 1st Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015) 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) 3 November — Anatoly Mikhaylov, Belarusian radiologist (d. 2026)
Deaths August 22 – Mikhail Tomsky August 25 – Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov
See also 1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) List of Soviet films of 1936 Purges Soviet Union
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