The following lists events that happened during 1979 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents edit
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982)
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin (1964–1980)
Events edit
Births edit
- 19 January – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian artistic gymnast
- 22 January – Olga Dolzhykova, Ukrainian-Norwegian chess player and educator.[2]
- 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 edit
- 6 February – Issa Pliyev, military commander (born 1903)
- 18 March – Iskhak Razzakov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia (1950–1961) (born 1910)
- 7 May – Aleksei Smirnov, actor (born 1920)
- 25 September – Yury Kovalyov, Soviet footballer (born 1934)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ ютуба, любитель (17 December 2010). "30 лет назад умер Алексей Косыгин" [A reformer before Yegor Gaidar? Kosygin died for 30 years ago]. Newsland (in Russian). Retrieved 29 December 2010.
- ^ Stanford, Sheila. "Olga Dolzjikova". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 31 December 2022.