← 1927 1926 1925 1928 in the Soviet Union → 1929 1930 1931
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1928 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

• 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

Events

• October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented.^[1]

May

• 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins.^[2]

Births

• 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach
• 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania
• 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist
• 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988)
• 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021)
• 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor
• 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012)
• 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympic equestrian
• 2 July – Tatyana Piletskaya, actress
• 13 July – Valentin Pikul, novelist
• 15 July – Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 2012)
• 30 July – Valentin Muratov, Olympic gymnast
• 2 September – Muhammad Dandamayev, Babylonia historian (d. 2017)
• 22 November – Valentin Galochkin, sculptor
• 29 November – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
• 31 December – Tatyana Shmyga, actress

Deaths

• 7 April – Alexander Bogdanov, Bolshevik (born 1873)^[3]