The athletics events of the final stage of the 7th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR were held in the Central Lenin (Luzhniki) Stadium in

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between 21 July and 29 July 1979. One

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was broken, by Marina Makeyeva in the women's 400 m hurdles.

Men's events

Women's events

References

; Results
Soviet Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-16. * Track and Field. () Handbook / Compiled by R. V. Orlov . - M .: "Physical Education and Sport", 1983. - pg. 392 * Panorama of the sports year () - 1979 / Compiled by A. N. Korolkov. - M .: Physical Education and Sport , 1980. - pg. 91-95. * Seventh All-People's () // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 9. - pg. 1-3. * Friendship Festival () // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10. - pg. 2. * Balakhnichev V., Maslakov V., Chevychalov G. From the Spartakiad to the Olympics () // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 3-10. * Aptekman B., Leonenko I., Borisov V., Morozov A., Fruktov A., Kulichenko V., Källe U. Courage is the key to records () // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 11-21. * Strizhak A., Yagodin V., Ter-Ovanesyan I., Kreer V. To the main start - in the best shape () // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10 . - pg. 22-28. * Krasnov I., Bukhantsov K., Bondarchuk A., Lusis Ya. Is the role of the avant-garde possible? () // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 10. - pg. 29-32. * Elfimov A., Seropegin D. Good experience () // Track and Field: magazine. - 1979. - No. 11. - pg. 4-5. * At the stadiums of the country and the world. USSR Cross-Country Championship () // Track and Field: magazine. — 1979. — No. 5. — pg. 24. * Final of the XVIII All-Union Cross-Country Race for the Prizes of the Pravda Newspaper () // Track and Field: Magazine. — 1979. — No. 6. — pg. 21. {{Soviet Athletics Championships Soviet Spartakiad

Spartakiad The Spartakiad (or Spartakiade) was an international sports event that was sponsored by the Soviet Union. Five international Spartakiades were held from 1928 to 1937. Later Spartakiads were organized as national sport events of the Eastern Bloc ...

International athletics competitions hosted by the Soviet Union

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1979 Spartakiad