1948 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1948 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

Joseph Stalin sends the first advisers to China in an effort to repair the economic damage brought on by years of civil war.
At the request of Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin Sends railroad construction expert I.V. Kovalev with a team of 300 engineers and laborers to repair deteriorated or destroyed Manchurian railways.
March 10 – Extreme restrictions are placed on German traffic from the Soviet Zone into Berlin.
June 24 – The Soviets implement a total blockade of all ground and water transport into or out of Berlin. The blockade will last nearly a full year, ending May 12, 1949.

January 1 — Pavel Grachev, 2nd Minister of Denfence
January 10 — Mischa Maisky, cellist
January 14 — Valeri Kharlamov, ice hockey player
January 20 — Natan Sharansky
January 27
*Mikhail Baryshnikov, Latvian and American dancer, choreographer and actor
*Otari Kvantrishvili, Georgian Mafia boss
March 20 — Helene Vannari, Estonian stage, radio, television and film actress
March 26 — Gayyur Yunus, Azerbaijani painter
April 13 — Mikhail Shufutinsky, Russian pop singer
May 2 — Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer
May 31 — Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian
June 1 — Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor
June 30 — Vladimir Yakunin, former President of Russian Railways
July 16 — Mariia Stefiuk
July 21 — Mikhail Zadornov, Soviet and Russian stand-up comedian and writer
August 23 — Lev Zelyony, Soviet and Russian physicist
August 28 — Natalya Gundareva, Russian film and theatre actress
August 30 — Victor Skumin, Soviet and Russian scientist, psychiatrist, philosopher and writer
September 19 — Nadiya Tkachenko, Ukrainian pentathlete
September 25 — Vladimir Yevtushenko, billionaire and oligarch
November 9 — Viktor Matviyenko, Soviet and Ukrainian footballer and coach