• Source: 1979 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1979 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.




Incumbents


General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982)
Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin (1964–1980)




Events


1979 Soviet economic reform
SALT II Treaty
Soviet–Afghan War




Births


19 January – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian artistic gymnast
22 January – Olga Dolzhykova, Ukrainian-Norwegian chess player and educator.
26 January - Artem Datsyshyn, Ukrainian ballet dancer (d. 2022)
1 February - Mikhail Rudkovskiy, former Russian professional football player
10 April - Yelena Podkaminskaya, Russian actress
30 July - Denis Churkin, former Russian professional football player




Deaths


February 6 — Issa Pliyev, military commander (b. 1903)
March 19 — Iskhak Razzakov, 4th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia (b. 1910)
April 16 — Anatoly Kharlampiyev, founder of sambo (b. 1906)
April 19 — Aleksandra Troitskaya, microbiologist-leprologist (b. 1896)
April 27 — Nikolai Vinogradov, navy officer (b. 1905)
May 7 — Aleksei Smirnov, actor (b. 1920)
July 1 — Vsevolod Bobrov, athlete (b. 1922)
July 2 — Larisa Shepitko, film director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
August 12 — Joseph Serebriany, painter and stage decorator (b. 1907)
September 25 — Yury Kovalyov, Soviet footballer (b. 1934)
December 16 — Vagif Mustafazadeh, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1940)




See also


1979 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
List of Soviet films of 1979




References

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