The following lists events that happened during 1922 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin (starting 3 April) Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin (starting 30 December) Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vladimir Lenin (starting 30 December)
Events February 5-14 February – Battle of Volochayevka
March 27 March – 2 April – 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Fall Mass expulsions of intellectuals on the so-called Philosophers' ships and later by rail.
December 30 December – First All-Union Congress of Soviets 30 December – Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union 30 December – The Declaration of the Creation of the USSR is ratified. 30 December – Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Births 5 January – Aleksey Gushchin, Olympic shooting champion (died 1986) 7 March – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician 20 March – Irina Antonova, art historian (died 2020) 30 March – Konstantin Kabanov, Soviet Air Force pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union 1 December – Vsevolod Bobrov, Olympic footballer 2 December – Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Olympic gymnast 12 December – Vasily Borisov, Olympic shooting champion (died 2003) 23 December – Sofya Kondakova, speed skater 27 December – Yevheniia Kucherenko, pedagogue date unknown – Ilya Timofeyevich Osipov, Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
See also 1922 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1922
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