Events from the year 1920 in Russia
Incumbents
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR – Vladimir Lenin
Events
- Russia Civil War (1918-1920)
- Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)
Births
- January 14 – Vahe Danielyan, Soviet soldier and concentration camp survivor
- July 11
- Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor, singer, and director
- Zecharia Sitchin, Soviet-born American author
- November 29 – Yegor Ligachyov, politician
- December 6 – Nikolai Kirtok, World War II fighter pilot
Deaths
- 9 March - Lidija Figner, revolutionary and a prominent member of the Narodniks (born 1853)
- 24 September - Inessa Armand, Female revolutionary, French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and a feminist (born 1874)
- 17 October - John Reed (journalist), American journalist, poet, and communist activist (born 1887)
References
Media related to 1920 in Russia at Wikimedia Commons