1953 in the Soviet Union

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The following lists events that happened during 1953 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Nikita Khrushchev (starting 14 September)
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Nikolay Shvernik (until 19 March), Kliment Voroshilov (starting 19 March)
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin (until 5 March), Georgy Malenkov (starting 6 March)

Events

Doctors' plot

=March=

March 5 — Joseph Stalin dies, starting a power struggle among Soviet leadership.{{Cite news |date=1953-03-06 |title=Moscow's Formal Announcement of Stalin's Death |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/03/06/archives/moscows-formal-announcement-of-stalins-death.html |access-date=2023-09-30 |issn=0362-4331}}

=May=

May 26 – August 4 — Norilsk uprisingWilliam D. Pederson, "Norilsk Uprising of 1953," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (Gulf Breeze, Florida: Academic International Press, 1976) Vol. 25

=July=

July 19 – August 1 — Vorkuta uprising{{Cite web |last=Bondaruk |first=Lesia |date=2015-10-29 |title=Finnish journalist's book on Vorkuta prison camp uprising |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/society/finnish-journalists-book-vorkuta-prison-camp-uprising |access-date=2019-09-06 |website=The Day (Den')}}

=August=

August 12 — Joe 4, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon occurs.{{Cite web |title=The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program |url=https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=nuclearweaponarchive.org}}
August 23 — RDS-4 is first tested.{{cite web |last=Mesnyankin |first=Petr |date=July 27, 1999 |title=The Russian Atomic Bomb – 50 years – WebCite cache |url=http://www.zavtra.ru/cgi/veil/data/zavtra/99/295/61.html |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225072844/http://www.zavtra.ru/cgi/veil/data/zavtra/99/295/61.html |archive-date=February 25, 2012 |language=ru}}

Births

January 3 — Ali Masimli, Acting Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
January 5 — Vassily Solomin, boxer and Olympian (d. 1997)
January 21 — Larisa Shoigu, Russian politician (d. 2021)
January 23 — Pavlo Lazarenko, 5th Prime Minister of Ukraine
January 31
Sergei Ivanov, 5th Minister of Defence of Russia
Aron Atabek, Kazakh writer and dissident (d. 2021)
February 13 — Sergei Kapustin, ice hockey player (d. 1995)
February 14 — Sergey Mironov, 3rd Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia
February 24 — Georgy Poltavchenko, 3rd Governor of Saint Petersburg
March 13 — Boris Zolotaryov, 2nd Governor of Evenk Autonomous Okrug
April 8 — Alexander Berdnikov, 5th Head of the Altai Republic
April 29 — Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
May 2 — Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor and opera company director
May 3 — Salman Hashimikov, Soviet and Russian heavyweight wrestler
May 6 — Aleksandr Akimov, engineer (d. 1986)
May 9 — Valery Zubov, 2nd Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (d. 2016)
May 17 — Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, 2nd President of Kazakhstan
May 23 — Vyacheslav Shtyrov, 2nd Head of the Sakha Republic
May 27 — Viktor Tolokonsky, 6th Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai
May 29 — Aleksandr Abdulov, Soviet and Russian film and stage actor (d. 2008)
June 23 — Armen Sarkissian, 4th President of Armenia
June 24 — Ivo Lill, Estonian glass artist (d. 2019)
June 29 — Ivan Malakhov, 4th Governor of Sakhalin Oblast
July 19 — Zinovia Dushkova, Russian author
July 28 — Vladimir Rushailo, 4th Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
August 17 — Myktybek Abdyldayev, 10th Speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan
September 23 — Alexey Maslov, 2nd Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces (d. 2022)
October 7 — Andrey Soloviev, war photographer (d. 1993)
October 22 — Akaki Asatiani, 2nd Chairman of the Supreme Council of Georgia
November 2 — Sergey Levchenko, 7th Governor of Irkutsk Oblast
November 16 — Aleksandr Prokopenko, football player (d. 1989)
November 27
Boris Grebenshchikov, Soviet and Russian rock musician
Aleksandr Torshin, Russian politician
December 18 — Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
December 30 — Oleksandr Sviatotskyi, Ukrainian jurist

Deaths

January 1 — Maksim Purkayev, military leader (b. 1894)
February 13 — Lev Mekhlis, 9th Minister of State Control of the Soviet Union (b. 1889)
March 5
Joseph Stalin, 2nd Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
Sergei Prokofiev, composer (b. 1891)
March 23 — Oskar Luts, writer and playwright (b. 1887)
May 4 — Nikolai Cholodny, microbiologist (b. 1882)
May 31 — Vladimir Tatlin, painter and architect (b. 1885)
June 30 — Vsevolod Pudovkin, film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1893)
July 31 — Nikolay Zelinsky, chemist (b. 1861)
August 1 — Jānis Mendriks, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1907)
August 30 — Elena Rozmirovich, revolutionary and politician (b. 1886)
October 6 — Vera Mukhina, sculptor and painter (b. 1889)
November 8
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, writer (b. 1870)
Zoya Rozhdestvenskaya, singer (b. 1906)
December 23
Lavrentiy Beria, 3rd People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (b. 1899)
Vsevolod Merkulov, 10th Minister of State Control of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
Bogdan Kobulov, senior member of Soviet security and police apparatus (b. 1904)

See also

References

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