1937 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1937 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 == 23–30 January — Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center June — Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization 18–20 June — The first transpolar flight and the first non-stop USSR-USA flight by the crew led by Valery Chkalov 12–14 July — A world-record non-stop flight, by the crew led by Mikhail Gromov, from Moscow to San Jacinto, California 12 December — Soviet Union legislative election, 1937 == 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 == Births == 2 January — Marietta Chudakova, Soviet and Russian literary critic (d.