1922 in the Soviet Union

• 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 ==