1976 in the Soviet Union

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← 1975 1974 1973 1976 in the Soviet Union → 1977 1978 1979
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 1976 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev^[1]
• Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin
• Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Solomentsev

• February 24 — 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union^[2]

• June 1 — The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union.^[3]

• January 10 — Valery Chekalov, Russian mercenary leader (d. 2023)
• February 27 — Sergei Semak, Russian football player and coach
• April 5 — Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
• April 12 — Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
• April 21 — Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
• May 28 — Alexei Nemov, former Russian artistic gymnast
• June 4 — Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and activist (d. 2024)
• June 17 — Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
• June 26 — Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (d. 2018)
• June 30 — Oleg Khorzhan, Moldovan lawyer and politician (d. 2023)
• July 21 — Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian track and field athlete
• July 24 — Yulia Navalnaya, Russian economist and political activist
• July 25 — Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen singer-songwriter
• August 6 — Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
• August 9 — Sergei Tyumentsev, former Russian professional football player
• August 31 — Alikhan Ramazanov, former Russian professional football player
• September 19 — Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian professional football referee
• September 26 — Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
• September 28 — Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter
• September 29 — Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• October 5 — Ramzan Kadyrov, 3rd Head of the Chechen Republic
• October 25 — Anton Sikharulidze, Russian figure skater
• November 5 — Oleh Shelayev, Ukrainian footballer
• November 23 — Chiril Gaburici, 10th Prime Minister of Moldova
• December 26 — Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice hockey denfenceman (d. 1999)

• January 11 — Aleksey Sorokin, member of Soviet cosmonaut program (b. 1931)^[4]
• February 27 — Vladimir Lemeshev, football player and coach (b. 1911)
• March 5 — Otto Tief, Estonian politician, military commander and lawyer (b. 1889)
• March 25 — Nikolai Kulakov, navy officer (b. 1908)
• April 26 — Andrei Grechko, 4th Minister of Defence (b. 1903)^[5]
• May 11 — Serafima Birman, actress, theatre director and writer (b. 1890)
• August 6 — Maria Klenova, marine geologist (b. 1898)
• August 30 — Pyotr Koshevoy, military commander (b. 1904)
• November 20 — Trofim Lysenko, agronomist and scientist (b. 1898)
• November 30 — Ivan Yakubovsky, 3rd Commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact (b. 1912)
• December 3 — Alexander Novikov, chief marshal of aviation for the Soviet Air Force (b. 1900)
• December 15 — P. S. Raman, Singaporean diplomat (b. 1920)

• 1976 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1976