- Source: Athletics at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
- Athletics at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
- Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
- Athletics at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
- 1979 Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
- Athletics at the 1975 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
- Luzhniki Stadium
- Ronnie Harris (sprinter)
- Sergei Baltacha (footballer, born 1958)
- Viktor Saneyev
- List of Soviet Athletics Championships winners
The athletics events of the final stage of the 7th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR were held in the Central Lenin (Luzhniki) Stadium in Moscow between 21 July and 29 July 1979.
One world record was broken, by Marina Makeyeva in the women's 400 m hurdles.
Men's events
Women's events
References
Results
Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
Track and Field. (Russian: Лёгкая атлетика. Справочник) Handbook / Compiled by R. V. Orlov . - M .: "Physical Education and Sport", 1983. - pg. 392
Panorama of the sports year (Russian: Панорама спортивного года) - 1979 / Compiled by A. N. Korolkov. - M .: Physical Education and Sport , 1980. - pg. 91-95.
Seventh All-People's (Russian: Седьмая всенародная) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 9. - pg. 1-3.
Friendship Festival (Russian: Праздник дружбы) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10. - pg. 2.
Balakhnichev V., Maslakov V., Chevychalov G. From the Spartakiad to the Olympics (Russian: От Спартакиады к Олимпиаде) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 3-10.
Aptekman B., Leonenko I., Borisov V., Morozov A., Fruktov A., Kulichenko V., Källe U. Courage is the key to records (Russian: Смелость — ключ к рекордам) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 11-21.
Strizhak A., Yagodin V., Ter-Ovanesyan I., Kreer V. To the main start - in the best shape (Russian: главному старту — в лучшей форме) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 22-28.
Krasnov I., Bukhantsov K., Bondarchuk A., Lusis Ya. Is the role of the avant-garde possible? (Russian: Под силу ли роль авангарда?) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10. - pg. 29-32.
Elfimov A., Seropegin D. Good experience (Russian: Хороший опыт) // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 11. - pg. 4-5.
At the stadiums of the country and the world. USSR Cross-Country Championship (Russian: На стадионах страны и мира. Чемпионат СССР по кроссу) // Track and Field: magazine. — 1979. — No. 5. — pg. 24.
Final of the XVIII All-Union Cross-Country Race for the Prizes of the Pravda Newspaper (Russian: Финал XVIII Всесоюзного кросса на призы газеты «Правда») // Track and Field: Magazine. — 1979. — No. 6. — pg. 21.