1924 in the Soviet Union

Decades:	; ; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	History of the Soviet Union; List of years in the Soviet Union;

The following lists events that happened during 1924 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 – 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

23–31 May – 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

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)

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