1978 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1978 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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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
Deaths
- 17 February – Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Soviet archaeologist and historian (born 1902)
- 1 May – Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (born 1903)
- 26 May – Tamara Karsavina, Soviet ballerina (born 1885)
- 24 June – Mstislav Keldysh, Soviet mathematician (born 1911)
- 17 July – Fyodor Kulakov, Soviet statesman (born 1918)
- 22 July – Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet official during Stalin and Khrushchev era (born 1904)
- 31 July – Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902)
- 27 September – Sergei Aslamazyan, Soviet composer (born 1897)
- 21 October – Anastas Mikoyan, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (born 1895)
- 23 October – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (born 1896)
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