1976 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1976 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
February
- February 24 — 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
June
- June 1 — The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union.
Births
- January 10 — Valery Chekalov, Russian mercenary leader
- February 27 — Sergei Semak, Russian football player and coach
- April 5 — Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
- April 12 — Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
- April 21 — Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
- May 28 — Alexei Nemov, former Russian artistic gymnast
- June 4 — Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and activist
- June 17 — Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
- June 26 — Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader
- June 30 — Oleg Khorzhan, Moldovan lawyer and politician
- July 21 — Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian track and field athlete
- July 24 — Yulia Navalnaya, Russian economist and political activist
- July 25 — Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen singer-songwriter
- August 6 — Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
- August 9 — Sergei Tyumentsev, former Russian professional football player
- August 31 — Alikhan Ramazanov, former Russian professional football player
- September 19 — Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian professional football referee
- September 26 — Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
- September 28 — Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter
- September 29 — Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- October 5 — Ramzan Kadyrov, 3rd Head of the Chechen Republic
- October 25 — Anton Sikharulidze, Russian figure skater
- November 5 — Oleh Shelayev, Ukrainian footballer
- November 23 — Chiril Gaburici, 10th Prime Minister of Moldova
- December 26 — Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice hockey denfenceman
Deaths
- January 11 — Aleksey Sorokin, member of Soviet cosmonaut program
- February 27 — Vladimir Lemeshev, football player and coach
- March 5 — Otto Tief, Estonian politician, military commander and lawyer
- March 25 — Nikolai Kulakov, navy officer
- April 26 — Andrei Grechko, 4th Minister of Defence
- May 11 — Serafima Birman, actress, theatre director and writer
- June 8 — Mikhail Katukov, armor commander
- August 6 — Maria Klenova, marine geologist
- August 30 — Pyotr Koshevoy, military commander
- November 20 — Trofim Lysenko, agronomist and scientist
- November 30 — Ivan Yakubovsky, 3rd Commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact
- December 3 — Alexander Novikov, chief marshal of aviation for the Soviet Air Force