1980 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1980 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

Events

19 July–3 August – The Olympics take place in Moscow.
Soviet–Afghan War

Births

20 February – Zurab Yevloyev, former Russian professional football player
4 May – Mikhail Tsvetkov, Russian high jumper
12 June – Denys Monastyrsky, Ukrainian politician
22 June – Ilya Bryzgalov, former Russian ice hockey player
20 September – Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist

Deaths

January 26 — Justas Paleckis, 1st Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR
March 1 — Daniil Khrabrovitsky, screenwriter and film director
March 4 — Vakhtang Ananyan, writer and journalist
March 9 — Nikolay Bogolyubov, actor
March 11 — Mikhail Kaufman, cinematographer and photographer
April 11 — Yakov Zarobyan, 10th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia
April 21
*Kirill Ilyashenko, 3rd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldovian SSR
*Alexander Oparin, biochemist
June 3 — Naum Akhiezer, mathematics
June 23 — Vadim Berezinskii, physicist
June 29 — Filipp Agaltsov, Soviet Air Force marshal of aviation
July 14 — Felix Berezin, mathematician and physicist
July 17 — Boris Delaunay, mathematician
July 20 — Lado Gudiashvili, painter
July 25 — Vladimir Vysotsky, singer-songwriter, poet and actor
August 8 — Oleg Kononenko, member of cosmonaut group LII-1
October 2 — Valentin Varlamov, jet pilot
October 4 — Pyotr Masherov, 20th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
October 15 — Mikhail Lavrentyev, mathematician and hydrodynamicist
November 12 — Andrei Amalrik, writer and dissident
November 20 — Avtandil Gogoberidze, football player
December 4 — Sultan Ibraimov, 4th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR
December 18 — Alexei Kosygin, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union

Date unknown

Akaki Mgeladze, 12th First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party
Lev Balandin, swimmer