The following lists events that happened during 1953 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .
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Amount of Ballistic missile launches by the Soviet Union in 1953
January 3 — Ali Masimli , Acting Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
January 5 — Vassily Solomin , boxer and Olympian (d. 1997 )
January 21 — Larisa Shoigu , Russian politician (d. 2021 )
January 23 — Pavlo Lazarenko , 5th Prime Minister of Ukraine
January 31
February 13 — Sergei Kapustin , ice hockey player (d. 1995 )
February 14 — Sergey Mironov , 3rd Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia
February 24 — Georgy Poltavchenko , 3rd Governor of Saint Petersburg
March 13 — Boris Zolotaryov , 2nd Governor of Evenk Autonomous Okrug
April 8 — Alexander Berdnikov , 5th Head of the Altai Republic
April 29 — Nikolai Budarin , Russian cosmonaut
May 2 — Valery Gergiev , Russian conductor and opera company director
May 3 — Salman Hashimikov , Soviet and Russian heavyweight wrestler
May 6 — Aleksandr Akimov , engineer (d. 1986 )
May 9 — Valery Zubov , 2nd Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (d. 2016 )
May 17 — Kassym-Jomart Tokayev , 2nd President of Kazakhstan
May 23 — Vyacheslav Shtyrov , 2nd Head of the Sakha Republic
May 27 — Viktor Tolokonsky , 6th Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai
May 29 — Aleksandr Abdulov , Soviet and Russian film and stage actor (d. 2008 )
June 23 — Armen Sarkissian , 4th President of Armenia
June 24 — Ivo Lill , Estonian glass artist (d. 2019 )
June 29 — Ivan Malakhov , 4th Governor of Sakhalin Oblast
July 19 — Zinovia Dushkova , Russian author
July 28 — Vladimir Rushailo , 4th Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
August 17 — Myktybek Abdyldayev , 10th Speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan
September 23 — Alexey Maslov , 2nd Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces (d. 2022 )
October 7 — Andrey Soloviev , war photographer (d. 1993 )
October 22 — Akaki Asatiani , 2nd Chairman of the Supreme Council of Georgia
November 2 — Sergey Levchenko , 7th Governor of Irkutsk Oblast
November 16 — Aleksandr Prokopenko , football player (d. 1989 )
November 27
December 18 — Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov , Chechen bard
December 30 — Oleksandr Sviatotskyi , Ukrainian jurist
January 1 — Maksim Purkayev , military leader (b. 1894 )
February 13 — Lev Mekhlis , 9th Minister of State Control of the Soviet Union (b. 1889 )
March 5
March 23 — Oskar Luts , writer and playwright (b. 1887 )
May 4 — Nikolai Cholodny , microbiologist (b. 1882 )
May 31 — Vladimir Tatlin , painter and architect (b. 1885 )
June 30 — Vsevolod Pudovkin , film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1893 )
July 31 — Nikolay Zelinsky , chemist (b. 1861 )
August 1 — Jānis Mendriks , Roman Catholic priest (b. 1907 )
August 30 — Elena Rozmirovich , revolutionary and politician (b. 1886 )
October 6 — Vera Mukhina , sculptor and painter (b. 1889 )
November 8
December 23
William D. Pederson, "Norilsk Uprising of 1953," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (Gulf Breeze, Florida: Academic International Press, 1976) Vol. 25