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What are some interesting events that happened in 1989? It’s my year of birth and I thought it would be fun to learn about some history by looking at events from the Soviet Union that happened during my birth year.

I was looking through some Время archive footage and translating the transcripts and but a lot of it was actually about what was happening internationally.

I was also surprised how collective farms were mentioned in the news.

I’ve been been teaching myself Russian and wanting to learn more about Russian history. I’ve been subscribed to the YouTube channel Советское телевидение for a while. You can find the 1989 playlist here

For non-Russians like myself that didn’t know, Время was the main news broadcast from 9PM every night for local and international news.

I’m from South Africa and our main news was broadcast at 8PM. I found it funny that Russian’s were staying up later to watch the news. Doesn’t any know know if it was 9PM Moscow time, or 9pm in each region?

Even though I know how important theater is to Russian culture, I still found it surprising how often theater events were mentioned on the main news. We won’t have many theaters where I am from but as someone who loves the theater and classical music it was cool to see theater and classical music events mentioned in the main news.

Some events that stood out to me:

• об ожившем вулкане Ключевский в центральной части Камчатки
  About the revived Klyuchevsky volcano in the central part of Kamchatka

• статистика о ходе уборки урожая зерновых в стране
  Statistics on the progress of the grain harvest in the country

• об открытии в Ленинграде фестиваля, посвященного 150-летию со дня рождения композитора М.Мусоргского
  about the opening of the festival in Leningrad dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of composer M. Mussorgsky

• о вечере хореографии в Москве, посвященном русскому балетмейстеру Касьяну Голейзовскому;
  about an evening of choreography in Moscow dedicated to the Russian choreographer Kasian Goleizovsky;

• о премьере в Московском театре оперетты спектакля «Проходимец Кири-Куки» по пьесе Михаила Булгакова «Багровый остров»;
  about the premiere of the play "Rogue Kiri-Kuki" based on Mikhail Bulgakov's play "Crimson Island" at the Moscow Operetta Theatre;

• видовой сюжет о сборе грибов.
  scenic story about mushroom picking.

• беседа А.Константинова с Дж.Кохоном о сети ресторанов быстрого питания «Макдональдс».
  conversation between A. Konstantinov and J. Cohan about the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain.

• об отправке в Китай Горьковским автомобильным заводом 250 автомобилей ГАЗ-2410 «Волга»
  about the shipment of 250 GAZ-2410 "Volga" cars to China by the Gorky Automobile Plant

• Международный турнир по шахматам в концертном зале «Измайлово» в Москве (эмблема турнира, спортсмены за шахматными досками, интервью Гарри Каспарова)
  International chess tournament in the "Izmailovo" concert hall in Moscow (tournament emblem, players at chessboards, interview with Garry Kasparov)

• О первом туре конкурса проектов памятников жертвам беззакония и репрессий в годы культа личности И.Сталина
  On the first round of the competition for projects of monuments to the victims of lawlessness and repression during the years of I. Stalin's personality cult

• О тяжелых условиях труда на Челябинском электрометаллургическом комбинате
  On the difficult working conditions at the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant

• О создании в Ярославле на производственном объединении «Машприбор» видеопроигрывателя «Амфитон-201»
  On the creation of the "Amphiton-201" video player at the "Mashpribor" production association in Yaroslavl

• Об английском писателе-фантасте Артуре Кларке
  About the English science fiction writer Arthur Clarke

• О популярности среди итальянских подростков игровых программах для персональных компьютеров
  On the popularity among Italian teenagers of gaming programs for personal computers

• О неопознанном летающем объекте в городе Харовске Вологодской области
  On an unidentified flying object in the city of Kharovsk, Vologda region

Are there any other events you can share art or culture related? Were there any big songs that were released? If I’m correct it was also the year of the first rock concert in Russia. The Московский международный фестиваль мира. Where any major films released at in this year that were very popular?