1982 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1982 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

Events

March 17 — Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev declared his government's decision to freeze the deployment of medium range nuclear armaments in the European part of USSR.
March 24 — A speech was delivered by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Tashkent to normalize Sino-Soviet relations.
May 24 — Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the KGB is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 21 — Joint Soviet-Indian Declaration.
November 10 — Leonid Brezhnev, who led the Soviet Union for 18 years, dies at 75.
November 12 — Yuri Andropov was elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
November 15 — The State Funeral of Leonid Brezhnev was held and he was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
December 1–5 — 1982 Prize of Moscow News.

Births

June 9 — Mamuka Bakhtadze, 13th Prime Minister of Georgia
June 28 — Irakli Garibashvili, 11th & 15th Prime Minister of Georgia

Deaths

January 19 — Semyon Tsvigun, KGB officer
January 25 — Mikhail Suslov, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
March 18 — Vasily Chuikov, military commander
April 4 — Dzhabar Rasulov, 8th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajik SSR
April 12 — Vitaly Goryaev, painter, graphic illustrator and caricaturist
April 25 — Boris Andreyev, actor
May 12 — Aleksandr Borisov, stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and singer
May 28 — Motiejus Šumauskas, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR
June 11 — Anatoly Solonitsyn, actor
June 24 — Nikita Salogor, 2nd First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia
July 29 — Vladimir Smirnov, foil and épée fencer
August 8 — Zinovie Serdiuk, 6th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia
September 21 — Ivan Bagramyan, military commander
November 10 — Leonid Brezhnev, 4th Leader of the Soviet Union
November 28 — Ivan Hrushetsky, 7th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR