1953 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1953 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Events
March
- 5 March - Josef Stalin dies, starting a power struggle among Soviet leadership.
May
July
August
- 12 August - Joe 4, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon occurs.
- 23 August - RDS-4 is first tested.
Births
Deaths
- 31 March - Ivan Lebedeff, actor (born 1895)
- 8 November - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, writer (born 1870)
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