1952 in the Soviet Union

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

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

August[]

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

October[]

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

November[]

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

December[]

• 15 December – The S-117 is lost due to unknown causes.

Births[]

• 15 February – Nikolai Sorokin, actor
• 3 May – Leonid Khachiyan, mathematician
• 14 June – Robert Lepikson, Estonian racing driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006)
• 20 August – Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec
• 12 September – Sergey Karaganov, political scientist
• 7 October – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

Deaths[]

• 9 March – Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik
• 15 March – Mikhail Doller, film director

See also[]

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

References[]