1923 in the Soviet Union

• 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 ==Events==

April • 17–25 April – 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) June • 16 June – The Yakut Revolt ends with the defeat of the White Army. October • 15 October – The Declaration of 46 is sent. ==Births==

• January 9 — Eduard Kolmanovsky, People's Artist of the USSR (d. 1994) • January 13 — Daniil Shafran, cellist (d. 1997) • January 15 — Yevgeny Vesnik, actor (d. 2009) • January 27 — Vladimir Aleksenko, Air force general (d. 1995) • January 30 — Leonid Gaidai, comedy film director, screenwriter and actor (d. 1993) • February 7 — Grigory Romanov, 9th First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 2008) • April 3 — Lev Zaykov, 10th First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 2002) • April 27 — Viktor Chebrikov, 6th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (d. 1999) • April 28 — Zarifa Aliyeva, ophthalmologist (d. 1985) • May 5 — Sergey Akhromeyev, 8th Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (d. 1991) • May 10 — Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003) • July 13 — Mikhail Pugovkin, comic actor (d. 2008) • July 28 — Vladimir Basov, actor, film director and screenwriter (d. 1987) • August 11 — Maxim Grabovenko, Hero of the Soviet Union (d. 1980) • September 6 — Aleksandr Babaev, fighter pilot (d. 1985) • September 11 — Grigory Baklanov, writer (d. 2009) • September 13 — Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Hero of the Soviet Union (d. 1941) • September 20 — Aleksandr Koldunov, flying ace during WWII (d. 1992) • September 26 — Aleksandr Alov, film director (d. 1983) • September 29 — Aleksei Filippov, mathematician (d. 2006) • October 18 — Pyotr Lushev, army general (d. 1997) • October 25 — Mikhail Mikhin, flying ace (d. 2007) • October 31 — Ivan Otmakhov, Hero of the Soviet Union (d. 1945) • November 6 — Aleksandra Chudina, athlete (d. 1990) • November 9 — Viktor Turbin, Hero of the Soviet Union (d. 1944) • November 11 — Isaac Trachtenberg, Hygienist (d. 2023) • November 22 — Yury Nikandrov, Olympic shooter (d. 2018) • November 23 — Mikhail Zaitsev, general of the Soviet Army (d. 2009) • November 29 — Inna Zubkovskaya, ballerina (d. 2001) • December 2 — Alexander Yakovlev, politician, diplomat and historian (d. 2005) • December 14 — Akhsarbek Abaev, Hero of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) • December 15 — Valentin Varennikov, general and politician (d. 2009) ==See also==