1948 in the Soviet Union

• 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

• Joseph Stalin sends the first advisers to China in an effort to repair the economic damage brought on by years of civil war.Kaple, Deborah. "Soviet and Chinese Comrades Look Back at the Friendship Decade." Modern Chinese Studies 22.1 (2014): 45–69. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
• 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.Pennacchio, Charles F. "The East German Communists and the Origins of the Berlin Blockade Crisis." East European Quarterly 29.3 (1995): 293–315. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
• 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.

• 20 January - Natan Sharansky
• 1 June - Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor (d. 1995)
• 16 July - Mariia Stefiuk{{cite encyclopedia|title=Стефюк, Мария Юрьевна|trans-title=Stefiuk, Maria Yurievna|url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/stefyuk-mariya-yurevna|encyclopedia=TASS|language=ru|access-date=5 July 2022}}

• 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)

• 1948 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1948

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