The following lists events that happened during 1978 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 24àJanuary â The Kosmos 954 ends its mission
February
March
April
May
June
July
September
October
November
December
Births
Deaths
- January 2 â Boris Chernousov, 10th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1908)
- January 18 â Ivan Dzerzhinsky, composer (b. 1909)
- February 17 â Artemiy Artsikhovsky, archaeologist and historian (b. 1902)
- February 19 â Mikhail Zakharov, navy officer (b. 1912)
- April 4 â Semyon Kirlian, Russian inventor (b. 1898)
- April 28 â Roman Karmen, film director, war cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter, pedagogue and publicist (b. 1906)
- May 1 â Aram Khachaturian, composer and conductor (b. 1903)
- May 25 â Artur Vader, 8th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR (b. 1920)
- May 26 â Tamara Karsavina, ballerina (b. 1885)
- June 24 â Mstislav Keldysh, mathematician (b. 1911)
- July 17 â Fyodor Kulakov, statesman (b. 1918)
- July 22 â Mikhail Pervukhin, statesman (b. 1904)
- July 31 â Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902)
- September 5 â Nikodim Rotov, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod (b. 1929)
- September 27 â Sergei Aslamazyan, composer (b. 1897)
- September 28 â August Sabbe, Estonian anti-communist of the Forest Brother (b. 1909)
- October 18 â Ramón Mercader, Spanish communist and NKVD agent (b. 1913)
- October 21 â Anastas Mikoyan, statesman (b. 1895)
- October 23 â Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (b. 1896)
- December 18 â Lev Uspensky, writer and philologist (b. 1900)
- December 30 â Mark Naimark, mathematician (b. 1909)
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