The following lists events that happened during 1928 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 – Alexei Rykov
Events October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented.
May 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins.
Births 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988) 20 March – Khanifa Iskandarova, Russian educator (d. 2020) 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021) 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012) 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympic equestrian 2 July – Tatyana Piletskaya, actress 13 July – Valentin Pikul, novelist 15 July – Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 2012) 30 July – Valentin Muratov, Olympic gymnast 2 September – Muhammad Dandamayev, Babylonia historian (d. 2017) 22 November – Valentin Galochkin, sculptor 29 November – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator 8 December – Ekaterina Salnikova, Russian chemist 25 December – Olga Moiseeva, ballerina and teacher 31 December – Tatyana Shmyga, actress
Deaths 7 April – Alexander Bogdanov, Bolshevik (born 1873)
See also 1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1928 Soviet grain procurement crisis of 1928
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