1982 in the Soviet Union

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: :: Leonid Brezhnev (Until November 10) :: Yuri Andropov (Starting November 12) • Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union: :: Leonid Brezhnev (Until November 10) :: Vasily Kuznetsov (Starting November 10) (acting) • Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union: :: Nikolai Tikhonov ==Events==

• March 17 — Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev declared his government's decision to freeze the deployment of medium range nuclear armaments in the European part of USSR. • March 24 — A speech was delivered by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Tashkent to normalize Sino-Soviet relations. • May 24 — Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the KGB is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. • September 21 — Joint Soviet-Indian Declaration. • November 10 — Leonid Brezhnev, who led the Soviet Union for 18 years, dies at 75. • November 12 — Yuri Andropov was elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. • November 15 — The State Funeral of Leonid Brezhnev was held and he was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. • December 1–5 — 1982 Prize of Moscow News. ==Births==

• June 9 — Mamuka Bakhtadze, 13th Prime Minister of Georgia • June 28 — Irakli Garibashvili, 11th & 15th Prime Minister of Georgia ==Deaths==

• January 19 — Semyon Tsvigun, KGB officer (b. 1917) • January 25 — Mikhail Suslov, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1902) • March 18 — Vasily Chuikov, military commander (b. 1900) • April 4 — Dzhabar Rasulov, 8th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajik SSR (b. 1913) • April 12 — Vitaly Goryaev, painter, graphic illustrator and caricaturist (b. 1910) • April 25 — Boris Andreyev, actor (b. 1915) • May 12 — Aleksandr Borisov, stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and singer (b. 1905) • May 25 — Nikolai Mikhailov, 3rd Minister of Culture (b. 1906). • May 28 — Motiejus Šumauskas, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR (b. 1905) • June 11 — Anatoly Solonitsyn, actor (b. 1934) • June 24 — Nikita Salogor, 2nd First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia (b. 1901) • July 29 — Vladimir Smirnov, foil and épée fencer (b. 1954) • August 8 — Zinovie Serdiuk, 6th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia (b. 1903) • September 21 — Ivan Bagramyan, military commander (b. 1897) • November 10 — Leonid Brezhnev, 4th Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1906) • November 28 — Ivan Hrushetsky, 7th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (b. 1904) ==See also==