1952 USSR Chess Championship

Held from 29 November to 29 December 1952 in Moscow.

The tournament was won by Mikhail Botvinnik.

Botvinnik and Mark Taimanov had a play-off match of six games in February 1953, which ended with the victory of Botvinnik 3½-2½, so bringing him his seventh title.

The final were preceded by quarter-finals events and four semifinals (at Leningrad, Minsk, Riga and Sochi).

For the first time in such events players were forbidden to agree a draw in under 30 moves unless they could get the arbiter's consent.