1976 in the Soviet Union

← 1975 1974 1973 1976 in the Soviet Union → 1977 1978 1979
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years 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^[1]
• Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin
• Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Solomentsev

Events

January

February

• February 24 - 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union^[2]

March

April

May

June

• June 1 - The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union.^[3]

July

September

October

November

December

Births

• 10 January – Valery Chekalov, Russian mercenary leader (d. 2023)
• 27 February – Sergei Semak, Russian football player and coach
• 5 April – Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
• 4 June – Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and activist (d. 2024)
• 30 June – Oleg Khorzhan, Moldovan lawyer and politician (d. 2023)
• 24 July – Yulia Navalnaya, Russian economist and political activist
• 9 August – Sergei Tyumentsev, former Russian professional football player
• 31 August – Alikhan Ramazanov, former Russian professional football player

Deaths

• 11 January – Aleksey Sorokin, member of Soviet cosmonaut program (b. 1931)^[4]
• 26 April – Andrei Grechko, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense (b. 1903)^[5]
• 30 November – Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1912)^{[citation needed]}

See also

• 1976 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1976

References