The following lists events that happened during 1982 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
: Leonid Brezhnev (Until November 10)
: Yuri Andropov (Starting November 12)
: Leonid Brezhnev (Until November 10)
: Vasily Kuznetsov (Starting November 10) (acting)
: Nikolai Tikhonov
Events
Births
Deaths
- January 19 â Semyon Tsvigun, KGB officer (b. 1917)
- January 25 â Mikhail Suslov, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1902)
- March 18 â Vasily Chuikov, military commander (b. 1900)
- April 4 â Dzhabar Rasulov, 8th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajik SSR (b. 1913)
- April 12 â Vitaly Goryaev, painter, graphic illustrator and caricaturist (b. 1910)
- April 25 â Boris Andreyev, actor (b. 1915)
- May 12 â Aleksandr Borisov, stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and singer (b. 1905)
- May 28 â Motiejus Ã
 umauskas, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR (b. 1905)
- June 11 â Anatoly Solonitsyn, actor (b. 1934)
- June 24 â Nikita Salogor, 2nd First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia (b. 1901)
- July 29 â Vladimir Smirnov, foil and épée fencer (b. 1954)
- August 8 â Zinovie Serdiuk, 6th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia (b. 1903)
- September 21 â Ivan Bagramyan, military commander (b. 1897)
- November 10 â Leonid Brezhnev, 4th Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
- November 28 â Ivan Hrushetsky, 7th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (b. 1904)
See also
References