1952 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1952 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Mingrelian Affair
- Doctors' plot: A group of prominent Moscow doctors, mostly Jewish, is falsely accused of conspiring to assassinate Soviet leaders.
June[edit]
- 13 June – Catalina affair: Two Swedish aircraft are shot down by Soviet fighter jets over the Baltic.
August[edit]
- 12 August – Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen Soviet Jews are executed on false charges.
October[edit]
- 5–14 October – The 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held.
November[edit]
- 5 November – The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk tsunami kills 2,336 people in the town of Severo-Kurilsk.
December[edit]
- 15 December – The Shch class submarine S-117 is lost due to unknown causes.
Births[edit]
- 1 January – Jury Zacharanka, Belarusian politician
- 15 February – Nikolai Sorokin, actor
- 23 March – Antonina Dvoryanets, hydraulic engineer and political activist[1]
- 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[edit]
- 9 March – Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik
- 15 March – Mikhail Doller, film director
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Shako, Taras (12 September 2014). "На звання "Почесного громадянина Броварів" крім Лисенка та Дворянець розглядають ще 3 кандидатури" [In addition to Lysenko and Dvoryanets, 3 more candidates are being considered for the title of "Honorary Citizen of Brovary"] (in Ukrainian). Pravo Znaty. Archived from the original on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
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