← 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.

Incumbents

• 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

Events

Births

• 1 March – Sergei Kourdakov, Soviet KGB agent, later Christian convert (died 1973)
• 17 September – Mārtiņš Brauns, Latvian composer (died 2021)
• 21 October – Dmitry Gayev, Russian civil servant (died 2012)

Deaths

• 31 December – Maxim Litvinov