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 19 – Tatyana Komarova, Soviet and Russian journalist (d. 2010) 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 Tajikistan 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
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