1953 in the Soviet Union

period from the early 1950s to the early 1960s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed

1950s antisemitic campaign by Stalin in the Soviet Union

Soviet political leader's 1953 death

RDS-6s (; American codename: "Joe 4") was the first Soviet test of a boosted fission weapon that occurred on August 12, 1953, that detonated with an energy equivalent to 400 kilotons of TNT.

1953 strike by Gulag inmates

Prison revolt in the USSR

first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union

RDS-4 (, also known as Tatyana) was a Soviet nuclear bomb that was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The device weighed approximately . The device was approximately one-third the size of the RDS-3. The bomb was dropped from an IL-28 aircraft at an altitude of and exploded at , with a yield of 28 kt.