The following lists events that happened during 1976 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
- June 1 â The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union.
July
September
October
November
December
Births
- January 10 â Valery Chekalov, Russian mercenary leader (d. 2023)
- February 27 â Sergei Semak, Russian football player and coach
- April 5 â Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
- April 12 â Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
- April 21 â Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
- May 28 â Alexei Nemov, former Russian artistic gymnast
- June 4 â Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and activist (d. 2024)
- June 17 â Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
- June 26 â Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (d. 2018)
- June 30 â Oleg Khorzhan, Moldovan lawyer and politician (d. 2023)
- July 21 â Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian track and field athlete
- July 24 â Yulia Navalnaya, Russian economist and political activist
- July 25 â Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen singer-songwriter
- August 6 â Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
- August 9 â Sergei Tyumentsev, former Russian professional football player
- August 31 â Alikhan Ramazanov, former Russian professional football player
- September 19 â Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian professional football referee
- September 26 â Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
- September 28 â Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter
- September 29 â Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- October 5 â Ramzan Kadyrov, 3rd Head of the Chechen Republic
- October 25 â Anton Sikharulidze, Russian figure skater
- November 5 â Oleh Shelayev, Ukrainian footballer
- November 23 â Chiril Gaburici, 10th Prime Minister of Moldova
- December 26 â Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice hockey denfenceman (d. 1999)
Deaths
- January 11 â Aleksey Sorokin, member of Soviet cosmonaut program (b. 1931)
- February 27 â Vladimir Lemeshev, football player and coach (b. 1911)
- March 5 â Otto Tief, Estonian politician, military commander and lawyer (b. 1889)
- March 25 â Nikolai Kulakov, navy officer (b. 1908)
- April 26 â Andrei Grechko, 4th Minister of Defence (b. 1903)
- May 11 â Serafima Birman, actress, theatre director and writer (b. 1890)
- June 8 â Mikhail Katukov, armor commander (b. 1900)
- August 6 â Maria Klenova, marine geologist (b. 1898)
- August 30 â Pyotr Koshevoy, military commander (b. 1904)
- November 20 â Trofim Lysenko, agronomist and scientist (b. 1898)
- November 30 â Ivan Yakubovsky, 3rd Commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact (b. 1912)
- December 3 â Alexander Novikov, chief marshal of aviation for the Soviet Air Force (b. 1900)
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