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← 1951 1950 1949 1952 in the Soviet Union → 1953 1954 1955
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during1952 in theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics.

• 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

• Mingrelian Affair
• Doctors' plot: A group of prominentMoscow doctors, mostly Jewish, is falsely accused of conspiring to assassinate Soviet leaders.

• June 13 —Catalina affair: TwoSwedish aircraft are shot down bySoviet fighter jets over theBaltic.

• August 12 —Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen SovietJews are executed on false charges.

• October 5–14 — The19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held.

• November 5 — The1952 Severo-Kurilsk tsunami kills 2,336 people in the town ofSevero-Kurilsk.

• December 15 — TheShch class submarineS-117 is lost due to unknown causes.

• January 1
  • Nikolay Dudov, 3rdGovernor of Magadan Oblast
  • Yury Zacharanka, 2ndMinister of Internal Affairs of Belarus (d.1999)
• January 2
  • Elvira Saadi, gymnast
  • Indulis Emsis, 18thPrime Minister of Latvia
• January 30
  • Valery Khalilov, Russian military band conductor (d.2016)
  • Anatoly Yefremov, 2ndGovernor 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, 3rdGovernor of Lipetsk Oblast
• February 27 —Yuri Shafranik, 3rdMinister of Energy of Russia
• March 2 —Sergei Stepashin, 5thPrime Minister of Russia
• March 9 —Konstantin Tolstoshein, ActingGovernor of Primorsky Krai
• March 18 —Yuriy Vynnychuk, Ukrainian journalist, writer and editor
• March 23 —Antonina Dvoryanets, Ukrainian hydraulic engineer and political activist (d.2014)^[1]
• March 27 —Akejan Kajegeldin, 2ndPrime 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, 3rdHead of the Altai Republic
• May 5 —Anatoly Artamonov, 4thGovernor of Kaluga Oblast
• May 18 —Yury Komarovsky, 1stGovernor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• June 14 —Robert Lepikson, 9thMinister of the Interior of Estonia (d.2006)
• July 14 —Nikolay Poluyanov, 1stGovernor of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
• August 1 —Petro Symonenko, Ukrainian politician
• August 20 —Sergey Chemezov, CEO ofRostec
• September 12 —Sergey Karaganov, Russian political scientist
• October 5 —Emomali Rahmon, 3rdPresident of Tajikistan
• October 7
  • Vladimir Putin, 2nd and 4thPresident of Russia
  • Ludmilla Tourischeva, gymnast
• October 14 —Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet and Russian gymnast (d.2011)
• October 19 —Mykhailo Yezhel, 10thMinister of Defence of Ukraine
• November 5 —Oleg Blokhin, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager
• December 29 —Külliki Saldre, Estonian actress

• 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 theRussian 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)

• 1952 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1952

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