1980_in_the_Soviet_Union
1980 in the Soviet Union
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1980 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982)[1]
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin (1964–1980), Nikolai Tikhonov (1980–1985)
- 19 July–3 August – The Olympics take place in Moscow.[2]
- Soviet–Afghan War
- 20 February – Zurab Yevloyev, former Russian professional football player[3]
- 12 June – Denys Monastyrsky, Ukrainian politician (died 2023)
- 22 June – Ilya Bryzgalov, former Russian ice hockey player
- 20 September – Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
- 10 February – Suren Tovmasyan, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia (1953–1960) (born 1910)
- 1 March – Daniil Khrabrovitsky, film director (born 1923)
- 9 March – Nikolay Bogolyubov, actor (born 1899)
- 11 March – Mikhail Kaufman, cinematographer and photographer (born 1897)
- 11 April – Yakov Zarobyan, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia (1960–1966) (born 1908)
- 7 July – Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (born 1901)
- 17 July – Boris Delaunay, mathematician (born 1890)
- 20 July – Lado Gudiashvili, painter (born 1896)
- 25 July – Vladimir Vysotsky, singer-songwriter, poet and actor (born 1938)
- 4 October – Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (1965–1980) (born 1918)
- 20 November – Avtandil Gogoberidze, football player (born 1922)
- 18 December – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1964–1980) (born 1904)
- Date unknown
- Akaki Mgeladze, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (1952–1953) (born 1910)
- Chubarov, Alexander (2003). Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and post-Soviet Eras. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 60. ISBN 978-0826413505.
- Bell, Daniel (17 March 2016). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland. p. 519. ISBN 978-1-4766-1527-1.
- 1980 in the Soviet Union at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)