Soviet History Timeline (Part 5)

Events 801 - 1,000 of 1,263

• 1973-04-19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1973-06-03 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner ("Concorde-ski"), crashes, 15 killed
• 1973-06-18 Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev visits the US and President Nixon
• 1973-06-26 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• 1973-07-21 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
• 1973-07-23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1973-07-25 USSR launches Mars 5
• 1973-08-05 USSR launches Mars 6
• 1973-08-09 USSR launches Mars 7
• 1973-08-15 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1973-08-28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1973-09-12 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1973-09-19 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1973-09-27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1973-09-30 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1973-10-01 USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens
• 1973-10-26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1973-12-21 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict

• 1974-01-30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1974-02-13 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship
• 1974-04-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1974-04-23 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1974-05-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1974-05-31 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1974-06-27 US President Nixon visits USSR
• 1974-06-30 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the West
• 1974-07-08 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1974-07-10 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1974-07-19 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 14 lands back on earth
• 1974-07-26 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
• 1974-08-14 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1974-08-29 USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1974-09-13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1974-09-19 The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents
• 1974-11-02 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1974-12-16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1974-12-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1975-01-14 USSR breaks trade agreement with US
• 1975-02-20 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1975-03-11 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1975-04-19 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
• 1975-04-25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1975-04-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1975-05-28 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 18 launches
• 1975-06-08 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
• 1975-06-14 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing

• 1975-08-23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1975-09-29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1975-10-05 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1975-10-18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1975-10-20 Soviet orbiter Venera 9 becomes the 1st spacecraft to orbit Venus
• 1975-10-21 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1975-10-22 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus, becoming the first lander to return images from the surface of another planet
• 1975-10-25 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
• 1975-10-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1975-12-13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1975-12-26 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
• 1976-01-15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1976-02-07 World's then largest telescope at 605 cm, the BTA-6 begins operations in the USSR
• 1976-03-06 Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (Soviet Union)
• 1976-04-21 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1976-05-19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1976-05-20 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1976-07-13 Court martial begins in USSR for Valery Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
• 1976-07-14 USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
• 1976-07-23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1976-07-29 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
• 1976-08-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1976-08-09 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
• 1976-08-18 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
• 1976-08-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1976-09-29 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1976-11-05 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1976-11-23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1976-12-18 Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
• 1976-12-19 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin
• 1976-12-30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1977-02-02 Soviet Salyut 4 Space Station re-enters Earth's atmosphere
• 1977-02-16 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan
• 1977-03-03 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
• 1977-04-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1977-04-28 American defense employee Christopher John Boyce convicted for selling secrets to the Soviet Union
• 1977-05-18 US, USSR and other nations sign the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects
• 1977-05-24 USSR President Podgorny resigns
• 1977-05-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1977-06-16 Leonid Brezhnev named Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• 1977-07-26 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• 1977-08-10 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
• 1977-08-17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1977-08-19 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1977-09-01 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1977-09-29 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
• 1977-09-30 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1977-10-07 USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
• 1977-10-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1977-12-20 1st Space walk made by Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Grechko during Salyut 6 EO-1 mission
• 1977-12-26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-03-09 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (Soviet Union)
• 1978-03-31 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
• 1978-04-14 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
• 1978-04-14 Thousands of Georgians demonstrate in the capital Tbilisi against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language
• 1978-04-23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-05-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-07-05 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
• 1978-07-05 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-07-13 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
• 1978-07-14 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
• 1978-07-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-08-09 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
• 1978-08-10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
• 1978-08-24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1978-08-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-09-06 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1978-09-20 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-09-24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1978-09-27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1978-10-07 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1978-10-15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-10-17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1978-11-03 USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
• 1978-11-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-11-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-12-14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1978-12-18 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1979-01-17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1979-02-01 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-02-12 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
• 1979-02-16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
• 1979-03-17 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
• 1979-05-06 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-05-24 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-06-18 US President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear weapons
• 1979-07-07 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-07-14 USSR performs nuclear Test
• 1979-07-18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-08-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-08-18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-08-19 Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin return to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space
• 1979-09-14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-09-15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-09-16 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1979-09-24 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1979-09-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-10-04 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1979-10-07 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1979-10-16 First global telenovela Mexican "Los ricos también lloran" (The Rich Also Cry) premieres, second foreign series to be screened in the Soviet Union
• 1979-10-18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1979-10-18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-10-25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1979-10-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-11-09 False alarm of a Soviet ballistic missile attack by US NORAD system after technician fails to code a test properly
• 1979-11-15 In Parliament Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, exposed as 4th man in Soviet spy ring. He was then stripped of his knighthood and fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge
• 1979-11-30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-12-02 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-12-21 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-12-23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1979-12-25 Soviet forces invade Afghanistan to prop up the Communist government, beginning a disastrous and failed ten-year war
• 1979-12-26 Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
• 1979-12-27 After invading Afghanistan two days earlier Soviet forces pull off a coup in Kabul, killing President Hafizullah Amin
• 1980-01-03 Babrak Karmal defends the Soviet-backed coup in first public appearance since taking power as President of Afghanistan
• 1980-03-14 Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
• 1980-04-04 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980-04-23 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
• 1980-04-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980-07-13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980-07-19 USSR's Walter Polovchak is placed in US custody at 12 after his asylum application
• 1980-07-31 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980-08-13 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
• 1980-09-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980-09-30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980-10-08 USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
• 1980-10-08 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1980-10-11 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1980-11-01 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1980-12-10 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1980-12-14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980-12-20 Soviet Union formally announces the death of past Premier Alexei Kosygin
• 1981-03-26 Soviet space mission Soyuz T-4 lands
• 1981-03-29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1981-04-01 Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.
• 1981-04-22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1981-04-24 US ends grain embargo against USSR

• 1981-05-27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1981-07-05 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1981-07-17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1981-08-19 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
• 1981-09-02 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1981-09-13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1981-09-26 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1981-10-01 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
• 1981-10-22 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1981-10-27 The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

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