1978 in the Soviet Union

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 1978 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

14 April – 1978 Georgian demonstrations
20 April – The Soviet Air Force shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902, a civilian airliner That flew into Soviet airspace.^[1]
25 April – 18th Komsomol Congress

17 February – Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Soviet archaeologist and historian (born 1902)
4 April – Semyon Kirlian, Russian inventor (born 1898)
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)