1980 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1980 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982)
• Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin (1964–1980), Nikolai Tikhonov (1980–1985)

Events

• 19 July–3 August – The Olympics take place in Moscow.
• Soviet–Afghan War

Births

• 20 February – Zurab Yevloyev, former Russian professional football player
• 4 May – Mikhail Tsvetkov, Russian high jumper
• 12 June – Denys Monastyrsky, Ukrainian politician (died 2023)
• 22 June – Ilya Bryzgalov, former Russian ice hockey player
• 20 September – Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist

Deaths

• January 26 — Justas Paleckis, 1st Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR (b. 1899)
• March 1 — Daniil Khrabrovitsky, screenwriter and film director (b. 1923)
• March 4 — Vakhtang Ananyan, writer and journalist (b. 1905)
• March 9 — Nikolay Bogolyubov, actor (b. 1899)
• March 11 — Mikhail Kaufman, cinematographer and photographer (b. 1897)
• April 11 — Yakov Zarobyan, 10th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia (b. 1908)
• April 21
• Kirill Ilyashenko, 3rd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldovian SSR (b. 1915)
• Alexander Oparin, biochemist (b. 1894)
• June 3 — Naum Akhiezer, mathematics (b. 1901)
• June 23 — Vadim Berezinskii, physicist (b. 1935)
• June 29 — Filipp Agaltsov, Soviet Air Force marshal of aviation (b. 1900)
• July 14 — Felix Berezin, mathematician and physicist (b. 1931)
• July 17 — Boris Delaunay, mathematician (b. 1890)
• July 20 — Lado Gudiashvili, painter (b. 1896)
• July 25 — Vladimir Vysotsky, singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938)
• August 8 — Oleg Kononenko, member of cosmonaut group LII-1 (b. 1938)
• October 2 — Valentin Varlamov, jet pilot (b. 1934)
• October 4 — Pyotr Masherov, 20th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• October 15 — Mikhail Lavrentyev, mathematician and hydrodynamicist (b. 1900)
• November 12 — Andrei Amalrik, writer and dissident (b. 1938)
• November 20 — Avtandil Gogoberidze, football player (b. 1922)
• December 4 — Sultan Ibraimov, 4th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR (b. 1927)
• December 18 — Alexei Kosygin, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)

Date unknown

• Akaki Mgeladze, 12th First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (b. 1910)
• Lev Balandin, swimmer (b. 1934)

See also

• 1980 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1980

References