Events from the year 1920 in Russia

• Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR – Vladimir Lenin

• Russia Civil War (1918-1920)
• Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)

• 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

• 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)

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