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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
October
November
December
Births
- 25 January – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine since 2019
Deaths
- 17 February – Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Soviet archaeologist and historian (born 1902)
- 4 April – Semyon Kirlian, Russian inventor (born 1898)
- 1 May – Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (born 1903)
- 26 May – Tamara Karsavina, Soviet ballerina (born 1885)
- 24 June – Mstislav Keldysh, Soviet mathematician (born 1911)
- 17 July – Fyodor Kulakov, Soviet statesman (born 1918)
- 22 July – Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet official during Stalin and Khrushchev era (born 1904)
- 31 July – Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902)
- 27 September – Sergei Aslamazyan, Soviet composer (born 1897)
- 21 October – Anastas Mikoyan, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (born 1895)
- 23 October – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (born 1896)
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.
| This article needs additional citations for
verification. (January 2024) |
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| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | |||||
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
October
November
December
Births
- 25 January – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine since 2019
Deaths
- 17 February – Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Soviet archaeologist and historian (born 1902)
- 4 April – Semyon Kirlian, Russian inventor (born 1898)
- 1 May – Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (born 1903)
- 26 May – Tamara Karsavina, Soviet ballerina (born 1885)
- 24 June – Mstislav Keldysh, Soviet mathematician (born 1911)
- 17 July – Fyodor Kulakov, Soviet statesman (born 1918)
- 22 July – Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet official during Stalin and Khrushchev era (born 1904)
- 31 July – Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902)
- 27 September – Sergei Aslamazyan, Soviet composer (born 1897)
- 21 October – Anastas Mikoyan, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (born 1895)
- 23 October – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (born 1896)
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.