1940 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. == Incumbents == 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 — Vyacheslav Molotov == Births == === January === January 11 — Andres Tarand, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia January 17 — Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova (d.