1952 in the Soviet Union

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

Incumbents

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
January 2
*Elvira Saadi, gymnast
*Indulis Emsis, 18th Prime Minister of Latvia
January 19 – Tatyana Komarova, Soviet and Russian journalist
January 30
*Valery Khalilov, Russian military band conductor
*Anatoly Yefremov, 2nd Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast
February 15 — Nikolai Sorokin, Russian theatre and film actor
February 21 — Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat
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
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
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
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
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
March 15 — Mikhail Doller, film director
April 15 — Viktor Chernov, revolutionary and one of the founders of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party
May 2 — Matrona Nikonova, Orthodox nun and saint
June 8 — Sergey Merkurov, sculptor
August 12 — Peretz Markish, poet
September 15 — Hugo Raudsepp, playwright