1926 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

• 29 January – Soviet law changes and the size of inheritable estates becomes effectively unlimited.{{Cite journal|last=Hazard|first=John|date=June 1945|title=Soviet Property Law|url=https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1497&context=clr|journal=Cornell Law Review|volume=30|issue=4|pages=482|via=Law Commons}}

• 24 April – The Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed.

• July – The "Declaration of the 13" was written by Kamenev, Krupskaya, Trotsky, Zinoviev, along with 9 other contributors. The declaration was a denouncement of the economic policies of the left and the attacks on freedom the writers felt would lead to the destruction of the Bolshevik Revolution.{{Cite book |title=Stalin and Stalinism|first=Martin|last=McCauley |date=2008|publisher=Pearson Longman |isbn=9781405874366|edition= Revised, third |location=Harlow, England|oclc=191898287}}

• December – The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union is conducted.

• 11 January – Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut
• 20 January – Vitaly Vorotnikov, statesman
• 31 January – Lev Russov, painter
• 7 February
• Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
• Mark Taimanov, pianist
• 10 March – Ivan Filin, Olympic athlete
• 24 March – Engels Kozlov, painter
• 3 April – Valentin Falin, diplomat and politician (died 2018)
• 10 April – Valeria Larina, painter
• 26 April – Yefrem Sokolov, politician (died in 2022)
• 22 May – Mikhail Bychkov, ice hockey player
• 1 June – Aleksandr Anufriyev, Olympic athlete
• 23 September – Valentin Kuzin, ice hockey player
• 25 September – Sergei Filatov, Olympic equestrian
• 8 October – Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko, psychiatrist
• 20 October – Gennadi Kryuchkov, Russian Baptist minister
• 31 October – Saima Karimova, Russian geologist (died 2013){{cite web|last=Levchikova|first=Lilia|title=Каримова Саима Сафиевна|trans-title=Karimova Saima Safievna|url=http://ysia.ru/spravka/?p=1523|publisher=Yakutsk-Sakha Information Agency|language=ru|access-date=9 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019004848/http://ysia.ru/spravka/?p=1523|archive-date=19 October 2017|url-status=dead}}
• 10 December – Nikolai Tishchenko, footballer

• 5 February - Theodor Nette, Soviet diplomatic courier of NKID (born 1896)
• 20 July - Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and politician (born 1877)
• 24 November – Leonid Krasin, politician ( born 1870)
• 17 March - Aleksei Brusilov, General during WW1 and the Russian Civil War (born 1853)

• List of Soviet films of 1926
• 1926 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

{{reflist}}

{{Years in the Soviet Union}}

{{Year in Europe|1926}}

{{Year in Asia|1926}}

Category:1920s in the Soviet Union

Category:Years in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Soviet Union

{{USSR-stub}}

{{Europe-year-stub}}

{{Asia-year-stub}}