1953 in the Soviet Union

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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

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 6 March), Georgy Malenkov (starting 6 March)

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)

See also

• List of Soviet films of 1953