← 1934 1933 1932 1935 in the Soviet Union → 1936 1937 1938
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

← 1934 1933 1932 1935 in Russia → 1936 1937 1938
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

The following lists events that happened during 1935 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 – Vyacheslav Molotov

Events

January

• 8 January – Battle of Khalkhyn Temple.

March

• 27 March – The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance is ratified by the USSR.

April

• 24 April – William Christian Bullitt Jr., the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, hosts the elaborately prepared Spring Ball of the Full Moon, which is said to have surpassed all other embassy parties in Moscow's history.

May

• 15 May – Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public.^[1]

June

• 26 June – The balloon USSR-1 ascends to an altitude of 16,000 meters and is forced into descent by a release of hydrogen.

July

• 24 July – First permanent children's railway is opened in Tbilisi.

August

• 25 August – The Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation is signed between Iran and the USSR.

December

• 28 December – Pravda publishes a letter from Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the USSR.

Births

• 7 January – Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut (d. 2014)
• 14 January – Yuri Zhuravlyov, mathematician
• 1 February – Vladimir Aksyonov, cosmonaut
• 24 March – Leonid Shebarshin, KGB officer (d. 2012)
• 29 April – Andrey Zaliznyak, linguist (d. 2017)
• 26 May
  • Gary Berkovich, architect
  • Allan Chumak, faith healer (d. 2017)
• 4 July – Leonid Potapov, politician (d. 2020)
• 8 July – Vitaly Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
• 19 July – Vasily Livanov, film actor, screenwriter and animator
• 26 July – Vladimir Nakoryakov, scientist (d. 2018)
• 3 August – Georgy Shonin, cosmonaut
• 2 September – Valentin Gaft, actor (d. 2020)
• 10 November – Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, astrophysicist
• 23 November – Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut
• 5 December – Yury Vlasov, weightlifter (d. 2021) ^[2]

Deaths

• 28 January – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, composer (born 1859)