1952 in the Soviet Union

← 1951 1950 1949 1952 in the Soviet Union → 1953 1954 1955
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1952 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin (until 16 October)
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Nikolay Shvernik
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin

Events

• Mingrelian Affair
• Doctors' plot: A group of prominent Moscow doctors, mostly Jewish, is falsely accused of conspiring to assassinate Soviet leaders.

June

• June 13 — Catalina affair: Two Swedish aircraft are shot down by Soviet fighter jets over the Baltic.

August

• August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen Soviet Jews are executed on false charges.

October

• October 5–14 — The 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held.

November

• November 5 — The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk tsunami kills 2,336 people in the town of Severo-Kurilsk.

December

• December 15 — The Shch class submarine S-117 is lost due to unknown causes.

Births

• January 1
  • Nikolay Dudov, 3rd Governor of Magadan Oblast
  • Yury Zacharanka, 2nd Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus (d. 1999)
• January 2
  • Elvira Saadi, gymnast
  • Indulis Emsis, 18th Prime Minister of Latvia
• January 30
  • Valery Khalilov, Russian military band conductor (d. 2016)
  • Anatoly Yefremov, 2nd Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast (d. 2009)
• February 15 — Nikolai Sorokin, Russian theatre and film actor (d. 2013)
• February 21 — Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat (d. 2017)
• February 23 — Oleg Korolyov, 3rd Governor of Lipetsk Oblast
• February 27 — Yuri Shafranik, 3rd Minister of Energy of Russia
• March 2 — Sergei Stepashin, 5th Prime Minister of Russia
• March 9 — Konstantin Tolstoshein, Acting Governor of Primorsky Krai
• March 18 — Yuriy Vynnychuk, Ukrainian journalist, writer and editor
• March 23 — Antonina Dvoryanets, Ukrainian hydraulic engineer and political activist (d. 2014)
• March 27 — Akejan Kajegeldin, 2nd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
• April 25 — Vladislav Tretiak, Russian ice hockey player
• May 3 — Leonid Khachiyan, Soviet and American mathematician (d. 2005)
• May 4 — Semyon Zubakin, 3rd Head of the Altai Republic
• May 5 — Anatoly Artamonov, 4th Governor of Kaluga Oblast
• May 18 — Yury Komarovsky, 1st Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• June 14 — Robert Lepikson, 9th Minister of the Interior of Estonia (d. 2006)
• July 14 — Nikolay Poluyanov, 1st Governor of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
• August 1 — Petro Symonenko, Ukrainian politician
• August 20 — Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec
• September 12 — Sergey Karaganov, Russian political scientist
• October 5 — Emomali Rahmon, 3rd President of Tajikstan
• October 7
  • Vladimir Putin, 2nd and 4th President of Russia
  • Ludmilla Tourischeva, gymnast
• October 14 — Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet and Russian gymnast (d. 2011)
• October 19 — Mykhailo Yezhel, 10th Minister of Defence of Ukraine
• November 5 — Oleg Blokhin, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager
• December 29 — Külliki Saldre, Estonian actress

Deaths

• March 9 — Alexandra Kollontai, revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician (b. 1872)
• March 15 — Mikhail Doller, film director (b. 1889)
• April 15 — Viktor Chernov, revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party (b. 1873)
• May 2 — Matrona Nikonova, Orthodox nun and saint (b. 1881)
• June 8 — Sergey Merkurov, sculptor (b. 1881)
• August 12 — Peretz Markish, poet (b. 1895)
• September 15 — Hugo Raudsepp, playwright (b. 1883)

See also

• 1952 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1952