The following lists events that happened during 1953 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents edit
- 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 edit
March edit
- 5 March – Joseph Stalin dies, starting a power struggle among Soviet leadership.[1]
May edit
- 26 May – 4 August – Norilsk uprising[2]
July edit
- 19 July – 1 August – Vorkuta uprising[3]
August edit
- 12 August – Joe 4, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon occurs.[4]
- 23 August – RDS-4 is first tested.[5]
Births edit
- 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
- 30 December – Oleksandr Sviatotskyi, jurist
Deaths edit
- 1 January – Maksim Purkayev, Soviet general (born 1894)
- 13 February – Lev Mekhlis, Red Army officer (born 1889)
- 5 March
- Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (born 1878)
- Sergei Prokofiev, composer (born 1891)
- 31 March – Ivan Lebedeff, actor (born 1895)
- 4 May – Nikolai Cholodny, microbiologist (died 1953)
- 8 November – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, writer (born 1870)
- 23 December
- Lavrentiy Beria, former leader of NKVD (born 1899)
- Vsevolod Merkulov, former Minister of State Security of the Soviet Union (born 1895)
- Bogdan Kobulov, senior member of Soviet security and police apparatus (born 1904)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Moscow's Formal Announcement of Stalin's Death". The New York Times. 1953-03-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program". nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
- ^ 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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