1942 in the Soviet Union

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 – Joseph Stalin

  Births

• 7 January – Svetlana Savyolova

  Deaths

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