1978 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1978 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
- Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin
- Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Solomentsev
Events
January
- 24 January – The Kosmos 954 ends its mission
February
March
April
- 14 April – 1978 Georgian demonstrations
- 20 April – The Soviet Air Force shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902, a civilian airliner That flew into Soviet airspace.[1]
- 25 April – 18th Komsomol Congress
May
June
- 21 June – 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown: 2 Boeing CH-47 Chinook belonging to the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces strayed into Soviet airspace over the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic during a training mission, resulting in the Shootdown of both aircraft by the Soviet Air Forces.[2]
July
September
- 28 September – one of the last Forest Brother guerilla movement fighter August Sabbe was discovered and killed in Estonia.
October
November
December
Births
- 25 January – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine since 2019
Deaths
- January 18 — Ivan Dzerzhinsky, composer (b. 1909)
- February 17 — Artemiy Artsikhovsky, archaeologist and historian (b. 1902)
- February 19 — Mikhail Zakharov, navy officer (b. 1912)
- April 4 — Semyon Kirlian, Russian inventor (b. 1898)
- April 28 — Roman Karmen, film director, war cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter, pedagogue and publicist (b. 1906)
- May 1 — Aram Khachaturian, composer and conductor (b. 1903)
- May 26 — Tamara Karsavina, ballerina (b. 1885)
- June 24 — Mstislav Keldysh, mathematician (b. 1911)
- July 17 — Fyodor Kulakov, statesman (b. 1918)
- July 22 — Mikhail Pervukhin, statesman (b. 1904)
- July 31 — Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902)
- September 5 — Nikodim Rotov, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod (b. 1929)
- September 27 — Sergei Aslamazyan, composer (b. 1897)
- September 28 – August Sabbe, Estonian anti-communist of the Forest Brother (b. 1909)
- October 18 — Ramón Mercader, Spanish communist and NKVD agent (b. 1913)
- October 21 — Anastas Mikoyan, statesman (b. 1895)
- October 23 — Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (b. 1896)
- December 18 — Lev Uspensky, writer and philologist (b. 1900)
- December 30 — Mark Naimark, mathematician (b. 1909)
See also
References
- ^ Swopes, Bryan (2023-04-20). "Korean Air Lines Flight 902 | This Day in Aviation". Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Soviet Downs Iranian Helicopter After It Strays, Killing the Crew". The New York Times. 1978-07-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-13.