1988 in the Soviet Union

armed conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994

first and only operational spaceplane in the Soviet Buran programme

December 1988 earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR

1988 Soviet missions to Mars

pogrom that targeted the Armenian population of the seaside town of Sumgait in Soviet Azerbaijan in late February 1988

1988 film by Vasili Pichul

Soviet Mars probe

final phase of the Soviet–Afghan War

1988 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir

1988 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir

1988 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir

1988 television film by Vladimir Bortko

political document

Soviet mars mission

Estonian political party

album by Kino

agreement that ended Afghan-Soviet war and Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

1988 film by Aleksandr Sokurov

pogrom in Kirovabad, formerly Ganja

United Nations Security Council resolution

Incident where USS Yorktown bumped into Soviet frigate Bezzavetney in the Black Sea

1988 Summit Between the USSR & USA

1988 riot and killing in Askeran, Azerbaijan SSR

plane crash caused by hijacker

1988 film by Alexander Sokurov

1988 Soviet Union Communist Party conference

1988 animated feature film directed by Ideya Garanina

Russian military early warning satellite

event in 1988 in USSR

aviation accident

IRS-1A, Indian Remote Sensing satellite-1A, the first of the series of indigenous state-of-art remote sensing satellites, was successfully launched into a polar Sun-synchronous orbit on 17 March 1988 from the Soviet Cosmodrome at Baikonur. IRS-1A carries two sensors, LISS-1 and LISS-2, with resolutions of and respectively with a swath width of about during each pass over the country. Undertaken by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was a part-operational, part-experimental mission to develop Indian expertise in satellite imagery.

first Nagorno-Karabakh War