The following lists events that happened during 1979 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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- February 6 — Issa Pliyev, military commander (b. 1903)
- March 19 — Iskhak Razzakov, 4th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia (b. 1910)
- April 16 — Anatoly Kharlampiyev, founder of sambo (b. 1906)
- April 19 — Aleksandra Troitskaya, microbiologist-leprologist (b. 1896)
- April 27 — Nikolai Vinogradov, navy officer (b. 1905)
- May 7 — Aleksei Smirnov, actor (b. 1920)
- July 1 — Vsevolod Bobrov, athlete (b. 1922)
- July 2 — Larisa Shepitko, film director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- August 12 — Joseph Serebriany, painter and stage decorator (b. 1907)
- September 25 — Yury Kovalyov, Soviet footballer (b. 1934)
- December 16 — Vagif Mustafazadeh, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1940)
ютуба, любитель (17 December 2010). "30 лет назад умер Алексей Косыгин" [A reformer before Yegor Gaidar? Kosygin died for 30 years ago]. Newsland (in Russian). Retrieved 29 December 2010.