diff --git a/tests/layer_tests/onnx_tests/test_lstm.py b/tests/layer_tests/onnx_tests/test_lstm.py
index 4160bbc616a989..ccdd442a85a28b 100644
--- a/tests/layer_tests/onnx_tests/test_lstm.py
+++ b/tests/layer_tests/onnx_tests/test_lstm.py
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ def create_lstm(self, direction: str, cell_type: str, hidden_size=128):
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('cell_type', ["LSTM", "GRU", "RNN"])
     def test_lstm_simple_precommit(self, direction, cell_type, ie_device, precision, ir_version,
                                    temp_dir):
+        if ie_device == "CPU":
+            pytest.skip("Ticket - 161790")
         self._test(*self.create_lstm(direction, cell_type), ie_device, precision, ir_version,
                    temp_dir=temp_dir, infer_timeout=150)