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1988
in
the Soviet Union

Decades:
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1988 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

Events

January

February

March

April

Reagan and Gorbachev during the Moscow Summit

May

  • 29 May – U.S. President Ronald Reagan visits the Soviet Union. The Moscow Summit takes place. The Medium and Short-Range Missile Reduction Treaty is signed, including OTR-23 Oka as a "bonus for American partners".

June

July

September

  • 5 September – The first AIDS case in the Soviet Union kills a 29-year-old woman Olga G.[4]

October

November

December

Births

Deaths

Unknown dates

  • Little Vera premieres in the Soviet Union.
  • Many higher education institutes cancel military training departments, which helped students to avoid military draft.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Парфенов 2010, p. 209
  2. ^ Парфенов 2010, p. 209
  3. ^ "FACTBOX: Miss Russia beauty pageant — history and traditions". RIA Novosti. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  4. ^ Grmek, Mirko (1993). History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic. Princeton University Press. p. 192. ISBN 0691024774.
  5. ^ Хроника внутриполитических событий в СССР (in Russian). The Gorbachev Foundation. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  6. ^ Hosking, Geoffrey A. (1991). The Awakening of the Soviet Union. Harvard University Press. p. 93. ISBN 0674055519.
  7. ^ Sabanadze, Natalie (2010). Globalization and Nationalism: The Cases of Georgia and the Basque Country. Central European University Press. p. 90. ISBN 9789639776531.

References

See also