1942 in the Soviet Union

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← 1941 1940 1939 1942 in the Soviet Union → 1943 1944 1945
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1942 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin
• Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin

• January 1
  • Gennady Sarafanov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2005)
  • Sergey Shakurov, Soviet and Russian theater actor
• January 5 — Giorgi Arsenishvili, 3rd State Minister of Georgia (d. 2010)
• January 7
  • Svetlana Savyolova, Soviet and Russian film and stage actress (d. 1999)
  • Vasily Alekseyev, weightlifter (d. 2011)
• January 24 — Valery Obodzinsky, Soviet and Russian tenor (d. 1997)
• February 3 — Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, 8th Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (d. 2020)
• February 10 — Anatolijs Gorbunovs, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Latvia
• March 11 — Aslambek Aslakhanov, Deputy of the State Duma (d. 2024)
• April 11 — Anatoly Berezovoy, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)
• April 14
  • Valeriy Brumel, Soviet and Russian high jumper (d. 2003)
  • Valentin Lebedev, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
• April 27 — Valeri Polyakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2022)
• April 29 — Galina Kulakova, Soviet and Russian cross-country skier
• May 13 — Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
• May 25 — Alexander Kalyagin, Soviet and Russian actor and director
• June 2 — Eduard Malofeyev, Soviet and Belarusian footballer and coach
• July 10 — Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet and Belarusian cosmonaut
• July 16 — Victor Kalashnikov, Russian small arms designer (d. 2018)
• July 28 — Valdis Birkavs, 11th Prime Minister of Latvia
• August 17 — Muslim Magomayev, Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian opera and pop singer (d. 2008)
• August 25 — Margarita Terekhova, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress
• October 8 — Ismat Gayibov, 1st Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan (d. 1991)
• October 11 — Anatoly Tyazhlov, 1st Governor of Moscow Oblast (d. 2008)
• October 15 — Tursunbek Chyngyshev, 2nd Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
• October 26 — Vladimir Yermoshin, 4th Prime Minister of Belarus
• October 30 — Eduard Vinokurov, Soviet and Russian Olympic sabre fencer (d. 2010)
• November 21 — Liudmyla Sheremet, Ukrainian anesthesiologist (d. 2014)^[1]
• November 22 — Ruslan Khasbulatov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation (d. 2023)
• December 30 — Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet and Russian human rights activist and writer (d. 2019)

• 14 February – Matvey Kuzmin
• 14 August – Sabina Spielrein

• 1942 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1942

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