1980 in the Soviet Union

← 1979 1978 1977 1980 in the Soviet Union → 1981 1982 1983
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years in the Soviet Union

"Russia 1980" redirects here. For the Olympic Games held in Moscow, see 1980 Summer Olympics.

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) ^[1]
• Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin (1964–1980), Nikolai Tikhonov (1980–1985)

Events

• 19 July–3 August – The Olympics take place in Moscow. ^[2]
• Soviet–Afghan War

Births

• 20 February – Zurab Yevloyev, former Russian professional football player ^[3]
• 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

• 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 — 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 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

1. 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.
2. Bell, Daniel (17 March 2016). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland. p. 519. ISBN   978-1-4766-1527-1.
3. 1980 in the Soviet Union at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)