← 1978 1977 1976 1979 in the Soviet Union → 1980 1981 1982
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during1979 in theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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

• 1979 Soviet economic reform^[1]
• SALT II Treaty
• Soviet–Afghan War

• 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

• February 6 —Issa Pliyev, military commander (b.1903)
• March 19 —Iskhak Razzakov, 4thFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia (b.1910)
• April 16 —Anatoly Kharlampiyev, founder ofsambo (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)

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

• 1979 in the Soviet Union
• 1970s in the Soviet Union
• 1979 in Europe
• 1979 in Asia
• 1979 by country

• CS1 Russian-language sources (ru)
• CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no)
• Articles with short description
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