The following lists events that happened during 1977 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
: Leonid Brezhnev
: Nikolai Podgorny (Until 16 June)
: Leonid Brezhnev (Starting 16 June)
: Alexei Kosygin
Events
- January 8 â Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
- February 7 â The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yury Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.
- March 4 â An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 that occur in neighbouring Romania had destroyed and damaged many buildings in Soviet Moldova.
- June 16 â Leonid Brezhnev started his second term as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, replacing Nikolai Podgorny as Head of State.
- July 10 â 1977 Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 hijacking.
- July 27 â The Politburo orders Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of Sverdlovsk Oblast, to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were shot in 1918.
- August 17 â Arktika, a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
- September 20 â The Petrozavodsk phenomenon is observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries.
- October 7
- A new constitution which is known as the Brezhnev Constitution has been adopted, replacing the 1936 Constitution. Constitution Day moved from December 5 to October 7.
- The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.
- November 7 â The 60th anniversary of the October Revolution is celebrated.
- A influenza pandemic was reported and the pandemic lasted until 1979.
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