1937 in the Soviet Union

← 1936 1935 1934 1937 in the Soviet Union → 1938 1939 1940
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1937 Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1937 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Events

• 23–30 January - Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
• June - Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization

Films

• Bezhin Meadow - directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• Lullaby - directed by Dziga Vertov
• The Return of Maxim - directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
• Without Dowry - directed by Yakov Protazanov

Deaths

• 10 January - Martemyan Ryutin
• 30 January - Georgy Pyatakov and Nikolay Muralov
• 18 February - Grigory Ordzhonikidze
• 31 May - Yan Gamarnik and Nikolai Uglanov
• night of 11/12 June - Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Ieronim Uborevich, Iona Yakir, Vitovt Putna and Vitaly Primakov
• Vassily Ryutin, older son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1910)
• Vissarion Ryutin, younger son of Martemyan Ryutin, executed (born 1913)