1953 in the Soviet Union

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← 1952 1951 1950 1953 in the Soviet Union → 1954 1955 1956
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1953 History of the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1953 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents[]

• First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev (starting 14 September)
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Nikolay Shvernik (until 19 March), Kliment Voroshilov (starting 19 March)
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin (until 6 March), Georgy Malenkov (starting 6 March)

Events[]

• Doctors' plot

March[]

• 5 March – Joseph Stalin dies, starting a power struggle among Soviet leadership.

May[]

• 26 May – 4 August – Norilsk uprising

July[]

• 19 July – 1 August – Vorkuta uprising

August[]

• 12 August – Joe 4, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon occurs.
• 23 August – RDS-4 is first tested.

Births[]

• 21 January – Larisa Shoygu, politician (d. 2021)
• 31 January – Aron Atabek, Kazakh writer and dissident (d. 2021)
• 14 February – Sergey Mironov, politician
• 27 November – Boris Grebenshchikov, rock musician

Deaths[]

• 31 March – Ivan Lebedeff, actor (born 1895)
• 12 April – Pavel Terentyevich Korobkov, air force officer (born 1909)
• 8 November – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, writer (born 1870)
• 5 March - Joseph Stalin, Leader of the Soviet Union (born 1878)

See also[]

• 1953 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1953

References[]

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