diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index da32c3f10ccb5..5eedaaa9804d1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -502,7 +502,12 @@ def get_sphinx_theme_version() -> str:
     'bowler',
     'click~=7.1',
     'coverage',
-    'docutils',
+    # Sphinx RTD theme 0.5.2. introduced limitation to docutils to account for some docutils markup
+    # change:
+    #      https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme/issues/1112
+    # This limitation can be removed after this issue is closed:
+    #      https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme/issues/1115
+    'docutils<0.17',
     'filelock',
     'flake8>=3.6.0',
     'flake8-colors',