1951 in the Soviet Union

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← 1950 1949 1948 1951 in the Soviet Union → 1952 1953 1954
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 1951 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin
• 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

• January 20 — Rouslan Saghabalyan, Russian writer, journalist and screenwriter
• February 3 — Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
• February 5 — Nikolay Merkushkin, 3rd Governor of Samara Oblast (d. 2010)
• February 11 — Vladimir Khabarov, 2nd Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• February 23 — Avtandil Jorbenadze, 4th State Minister of Georgia (d. 2024)
• February 24 — Aleksandr Nazarov, 1st Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
• March 1 — Sergei Kourdakov, Soviet KGB agent, later Christian convert (d. 1973)
• March 26 — Aleksey Buldakov, Soviet and Russian movie actor (d. 2019)
• March 30 — Sergey Tereshchenko, 1st Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (d. 2023)
• April 6 — Rita Raave, Estonian stage, television and film actress
• April 14 — Pyotr Mamonov, rock musician (d. 2021)
• April 15 — Vladimir Rayfikesht, 1st Governor of Altai Krai
• April 21 — Aleksandr Laveykin, cosmonaut
• April 30 — Mikhail Kislyuk, 1st Governor of Kemerovo Oblast
• May 3 — Nikolai Yegorov, 4th Governor of Krasnodar Krai (d. 1997)
• May 23 — Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
• June 4 — Sergey Mitin, 2nd Governor of Novgorod Oblast
• July 9 — Māris Gailis, 12th Prime Minister of Latvia
• July 11 — Nikolai Patrushev, 5th Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia
• July 25 — Yury Kovalchuk, billionaire businessman and financier
• August 1 — Vladimir Barabanov, 1st and 4th Governor of Bryansk Oblast
• August 4 — Andris Bērziņš, 16th Prime Minister of Latvia
• August 23 — Akhmad Kadyrov, 1st Head of the Chechen Republic (d. 2004)
• August 30 — Gediminas Kirkilas, 13th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2024)
• September 14 — Volodymyr Melnykov, Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter and composer
• September 15 — Alexander Mikhailov, 3rd Governor of Kursk Oblast (d. 2020)
• September 17 — Mārtiņš Brauns, Latvian composer (d. 2021)
• September 21 — Aslan Maskhadov, 3rd President of Ichkeria (d. 2005)
• October 4 — Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
• October 15 — Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
• October 21 — Dmitry Gayev, Russian civil servant (d. 2012)
• October 23 — Vyacheslav Chanov, Russian football coach and goalkeeper
• October 27 — Mikhail Kozlov, Acting Governor of Altai Krai
• October 29 — Alexander Karlin, 5th Governor of Altai Krai
• November 15 — Alexander Bortnikov, 6th Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia
• November 27 — Ivars Godmanis, 10th Prime Minister of Latvia
• December 3 — Ivan Cherednik, mathematician
• December 19 — Nikolay Volkov, 1st Governor of Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• December 25 — Alexander Volkov, 1st Head of the Udmurt Republic (d. 2017)
• December 30 — Alexey Barinov, 4th Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug

• April 2 — Mikhail Vladimirsky, politician and revolutionary (b. 1874)
• May 1 — Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Orthodox priest (b. 1869)
• May 29 — Mikhail Borodin, revolutionary and Comintern agent (b. 1884)
• June 16 — Pyotr Pavlenko, writer, screenwriter and war correspondent (b. 1899)
• November 3 — Alexei Badayev, functionary (b. 1883)
• November 5 — Agrippina Vaganova, ballerina (b. 1879)
• December 31 — Maxim Litvinov, 2nd People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (b. 1876)

• 1951 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1951

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