The following lists events that happened during 1952 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin (until 16 October) Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Nikolay Shvernik Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
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-Kurilsk.
December
15 December – The Shch class submarine S-117 is lost due to unknown causes.
Births
1 January – Jury Zacharanka, Belarusian politician
15 February – Nikolai Sorokin, actor
23 March – Antonina Dvoryanets, hydraulic engineer and political activist
3 May – Leonid Khachiyan, mathematician
14 June – Robert Lepikson, Estonian racing driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006) 20 August – Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec 12 September – Sergey Karaganov, political scientist 7 October – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia