1951 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1951 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

Births

 * 1 March – Sergei Kourdakov, Soviet KGB agent, later Christian convert (died 1973)
 * 17 September – Mārtiņš Brauns, Latvian composer (died 2021)
 * 21 October – Dmitry Gayev, Russian civil servant (died 2012)

Deaths

 * 31 December – Maxim Litvinov