1948 in the Soviet Union

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

Incumbents

 * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
 * 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

 * 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.

Births

 * 20 January - Natan Sharansky
 * 1 June - Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor (d. 1995)
 * 16 July - Mariia Stefiuk

Deaths

 * 11 February – Sergei Eisenstein, film director (born 1898)
 * 31 August – Andrei Zhdanov, Second Secretary of the CPSU (born 1896)
 * 25 October – Boris Fomin, musician (born 1900)