1953 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1953 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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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 6 March), Georgy Malenkov (starting 6 March)
Events
March
- 5 March – Joseph Stalin dies, starting a power struggle among Soviet leadership.
May
- 26 May – 4 August – Norilsk uprising[1]
July
- 19 July – 1 August – Vorkuta uprising[2]
August
- 12 August – Joe 4, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon occurs.[3]
- 23 August – RDS-4 is first tested.[4]
Births
- 21 January – Larisa Shoygu, politician (d. 2021)
- 31 January – Aron Atabek, Kazakh writer and dissident (d. 2021)
- 14 February – Sergey Mironov, politician
- 27 November – Boris Grebenshchikov, rock musician
Deaths
- 5 March - Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (born 1878)
- 31 March – Ivan Lebedeff, actor (born 1895)
- 12 April – Pavel Terentyevich Korobkov, air force officer (born 1909)
- 4 May – Nikolai Cholodny, microbiologist (died 1953)
- 8 November – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, writer (born 1870)
References
- William D. Pederson, "Norilsk Uprising of 1953," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (Gulf Breeze, Florida: Academic International Press, 1976) Vol. 25
- Bondaruk, Lesia (2015-10-29). "Finnish journalist's book on Vorkuta prison camp uprising". The Day (Den'). Retrieved 2019-09-06.
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- Mesnyankin, Petr (July 27, 1999). "The Russian Atomic Bomb – 50 years – WebCite cache" (in Russian). Archived from the original on February 25, 2012.
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