1930 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 – Alexei Rykov (until 19 December), Vyacheslav Molotov (starting 19 December) ==Events==

June • 26 June – 13 July – 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). November • 25 November – 7 December – The Industrial Party Trial is held. ==Births==

• 1 January – Zhanna Kolodub, Ukrainian composer and teacher (d. 2025) • 9 January • Pavel Kolchin, cross-country skier (d. 2010) • Igor Netto, footballer (d. 1999) • 14 January – Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh, Azerbaijani scientist and businessman (d. 2023) • 26 February – Vladimir Kesarev, footballer • 15 March – Mariya Orlyk, teacher and politician • 10 April – Vladimir Yerokhin, footballer (d. 1996) • 16 April – Fyodor Bogdanovsky, Olympic weightlifter • 19 May – Leonid Kharitonov, actor • 31 May – Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1997) • 29 June – Anatoli Maslyonkin, footballer • 10 July – Dmitry Oboznenko, painter • 21 September – Sergei Popov, Olympic athlete • 7 October – Yuri Dubinin, diplomat (d. 2013) • 10 October – Medea Amiranashvili, Georgian soprano (d. 2023) • 21 October – Ivan Silayev, politician (d. 2023) • 29 December – Vladimir Ryzhkin, footballer • 31 December – Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, actor == Deaths ==

• 14 April – Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet (born 1893) ==See also==