1979 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1979 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982)
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin (1964–1980)
Births
- 19 January – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian artistic gymnast
- 26 January - Artem Datsyshyn, Ukrainian ballet dancer (d. 2022)
- 1 February - Mikhail Rudkovskiy, former Russian professional football player
- 30 July - Denis Churkin, former Russian professional football player
References
- ютуба, любитель (17 December 2010). "30 лет назад умер Алексей Косыгин" [A reformer before Yegor Gaidar? Kosygin died for 30 years ago]. Newsland (in Russian). Retrieved 29 December 2010.
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