1977 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1977 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Events
- January 8 — Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.[1]
- February 7 — The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yury Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.[2]
- March 4 — An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 that occur in neighbouring Romania had destroyed and damaged many buildings in Soviet Moldova.[3]
- March 30 - Aeroflot Flight H-925
- June 16 — Leonid Brezhnev started his second term as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, replacing Nikolai Podgorny as Head of State.[4]
- July 10 — 1977 Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 hijacking.[5][6]
- July 27 — The Politburo orders Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of Sverdlovsk Oblast, to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were shot in 1918.[7]
- August 17 — Arktika, a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.[8]
- September 20 — The Petrozavodsk phenomenon is observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries.[9]
- October 7
- A new constitution which is known as the Brezhnev Constitution has been adopted, replacing the 1936 Constitution. Constitution Day moved from December 5 to October 7.[10][11]
- The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.[12]
- October 13 - 1977 Aeroflot Yak-40 accident
- November 7 — The 60th anniversary of the October Revolution is celebrated.[13]
- A influenza pandemic was reported and the pandemic lasted until 1979.[14]