1939 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1939 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov
Events
- March 10–21 – 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- May 11 – September 16 – Battles of Khalkhin Gol
- August 19 – German–Soviet Credit Agreement (1939)
- August 23 – Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- September 17-October 6 – Soviet invasion of Poland
- September 28 – Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty
- October 5 – Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty
- October 10 – Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty
- November 26 – Shelling of Mainila
Births
Deaths
- February 2 – Vladimir Shukhov
- February 22 – Grigory Khakhanyan
- February 23
- Pyotr Smirnov
- Alexander Ilyich Yegorov
- February 26
- March 3 – Georgy Bazilevich
- March 7 – Matvei Berman
- March 10 – Georgy Bondar
- April 1 – Anton Makarenko
- May 19 – Karl Radek
- May 21 – Grigori Sokolnikov
- September 11 – Konstantin Korovin
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