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1953 in the Soviet Union

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Decades:
  
1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

See also:
  
Other events of 1953 Timeline of Soviet history

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

Contents

Events

  • Doctors' plot
  • March

  • 5 March - Josef Stalin dies, starting a power struggle among Soviet leadership.
  • May

  • 26 May-4 August - Norilsk uprising
  • July

  • 19 July-1 August - Vorkuta uprising
  • August

  • 12 August - Joe 4, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon occurs.
  • 23 August - RDS-4 is first tested.
  • Births

  • 14 February - Sergey Mironov, statesman
  • 27 November - Boris Grebenshchikov, rock musician
  • Deaths

  • 31 March - Ivan Lebedeff, actor (born 1895)
  • 8 November - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, writer (born 1870)
  • References

    1953 in the Soviet Union Wikipedia