1979 in the Soviet Union

1979–1989 war between the Soviet Union and Afghan insurgents

two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union

1979 Soviet assassination of Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin

1979 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Salyut 6

Siberiade (, translit. Sibiriada) is a 1979 Soviet historical drama film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and produced by Mosfilm. The four-part epic spans much of the 20th century.

1979 aviation accident

crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

1979 Soviet miniseries by Stanislav Govorukhin

1979 accidental release of anthrax in the Soviet Union

1979 Soviet test spaceflight

uncrewed spacecraft

1980 television miniseries directed by Igor Maslennikov

1979 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

bion satellite

satellite

1979 film by Ali Hamroyev

census in the Soviet Union

1979 Tupolev Tu-104 crash near Moscow

film festival

group of seven Russian Soviet composers denounced at the Sixth Congress of the Composers' Union by its leader Tikhon Khrennikov for the unapproved participation in some festivals of Soviet music in the West

1979 Soviet musical comedy animated film directed by Vladimir Samsonov

1980 Soviet miniseries

aviation accident

attempts to boost the Soviet economy