1952 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1952 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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-Kumilsk.
December
- 15 December - The Shch class submarine S-117 is lost due to unknown causes.
Births
- 15 February - Nikolai Sorokin, actor
- 3 May - Leonid Khachiyan, mathematician
- 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
References
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