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1952 in the Soviet Union

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1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

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Other events of 1952 Timeline of Soviet history

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

Contents

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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