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| 1975 |
| | | Anatoly Karpov becomes world chess champion by default when Bobby Fischer fails to defend his title | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Astronauts Tom Stafford and Aleksei Leonov shake hands when their Apollo and Soyuz craft successfully dock in space | |
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| 1982 |
| | | After 18 years as General Secretary of the Communist party in the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev dies in office | |
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| 1985 |
| | | New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev brings glasnost ('openness') and perestroika ('reform') to the USSR | |
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| 1985 |
| | | 22-year-old Gary Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov and becomes the youngest-ever world champion in chess | |
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| 1986 |
| | | The Soviets launch the first module (the living quarters) of their Mir Space Station | |
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| 1986 |
| | | A Soviet nuclear power station explodes at Chernobyl, scattering radioactive material over a wide area | |
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| 1988 |
| | | The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announces that Soviet troops will leave Afghanistan, handing victory to the mujaheddin | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Nine Roman Catholic cardinals attend the 1000th anniversary celebrations of the Russian people being brought into the Orthodox faith | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The USSR completes the phased withdrawal of its troops from Aghanistan | |
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