1936 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 – Vyacheslav Molotov

• August 19–24 – Trial of the SixteenConquest, Robert (1990), The Great Terror: A Reassessment. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0195071328}}. p. 91.

• Stalin's Great Purges begin.
• Second Five-Year Plan underway

• By the Bluest of Seas – directed by Boris Barnet
• Circus – directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
• Girl Friends – directed by Lev Arnshtam

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• 28 January - Bernara Karieva, Uzbekistani ballerina{{cite encyclopedia|title=Karieva, Bernara Rakhimovna|url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Bernara+Karieva|encyclopedia=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|year=1979|access-date=23 May 2022|via=The Free Library|archive-date=1 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601163411/https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Bernara+Karieva|url-status=live}}
• 2 June - Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
• 7 July - Anatoly Kirov, Russian wrestler
• 17 July - Shota Shamatava, politician (d. 2013)
• 31 August – Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist (d. 2018)
• 1 September - Valery Legasov, Russian chemist (d. 1988)
• 21 September - Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019)
• 8 October - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022)
• 30 October
• Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
• Margarita Voites, Estonian soprano (d. 2024)

• August 22 – Mikhail Tomsky
• August 25 – Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Ivan Nikitich Smirnov

• 1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)
• List of Soviet films of 1936
• Purges
• Soviet Union

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