1952 in the Soviet Union

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

Incumbents

 * 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

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

June

 * 13 June – Catalina affair: Two Swedish aircraft are shot down by Soviet fighter jets over the Baltic.

August

 * 12 August – Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen Soviet Jews are executed on false charges.

October

 * 5–14 October – The 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held.

November

 * 5 November – The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk tsunami kills 2,336 people in the town of Severo-Kurilsk.

December

 * 15 December – The Shch class submarine S-117 is lost due to unknown causes.

Births

 * 1 January – Jury Zacharanka, Belarusian politician
 * 15 February – Nikolai Sorokin, actor
 * 23 March – Antonina Dvoryanets, hydraulic engineer and political activist
 * 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

 * 9 March – Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik
 * 15 March – Mikhail Doller, film director