1978 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1978 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents[edit]
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin
- Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Solomentsev
Events[edit]
January[edit]
- 24 January – The Kosmos 954 ends its mission
February[edit]
March[edit]
April[edit]
- 14 April – 1978 Georgian demonstrations
- 20 April – The Soviet Air Force shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902, a civilian airliner That flew into Soviet airspace.[1]
- 25 April – 18th Komsomol Congress
May[edit]
June[edit]
July[edit]
September[edit]
October[edit]
November[edit]
December[edit]
Deaths[edit]
- 17 February – Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Soviet archaeologist and historian (born 1902)
- 1 May – Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (born 1903)
- 26 May – Tamara Karsavina, Soviet ballerina (born 1885)
- 24 June – Mstislav Keldysh, Soviet mathematician (born 1911)
- 17 July – Fyodor Kulakov, Soviet statesman (born 1918)
- 22 July – Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet official during Stalin and Khrushchev era (born 1904)
- 31 July – Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902)
- 27 September – Sergei Aslamazyan, Soviet composer (born 1897)
- 21 October – Anastas Mikoyan, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (born 1895)
- 23 October – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (born 1896)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Swopes, Bryan (2023-04-20). "Korean Air Lines Flight 902 | This Day in Aviation". Retrieved 2024-01-19.