The 22nd Summer Olympic Games were held in Moscow on July 19 to August 3, 1980. It was the first Olympiad in history that took place in a socialist country, as well as the first Olympiad in Eastern Europe.
Some Olympic competitions were held in other cities of the USSR. For instance, the sailing regatta was held in Tallinn; qualifying games and the quarter-final stage of the football tournament took place in Kiev, Minsk and Leningrad.
The 1980 Olympics were boycotted by more than 50 countries, who thus protested against the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan. Among them were Great Britain, Belgium, France, Switzerland and others. However, athletes from these countries were still able to perform in Moscow under the neutral Olympic flag.
However, the 22nd Summer Olympic Games became famous not only due to those boycotts. At the Moscow competitions, athletes set 74 Olympic and 36 world records. It was an unprecedented event, and no other Olympics have been able to surpass such an impressive result so far.
In the summer of 1980, the guests of Moscow not only saw the grandiose sporting events, but were also offered an extensive cultural program. It was a colorful and emotional festival of national arts of the peoples inhabiting the territory of the USSR. The program contained 6,700 events, including 144 opera and ballet performances, 455 theater performances, 1,500 symphonic, chamber and solo concerts, dozens of exhibitions and excursions.
As part of the entertainment program, Alla Pugacheva gave a series of new concerts at the Variety Theater especially for the foreign guests who came to the Olympics. For the first time, the prima donna performed several songs: The Confession, Hush, O People, The Trouble, This Path is So Vexatious, When I Become Grandmother, Go Away when Leaving. The museum’s exposition features a poster for one of Alla Pugacheva’s performances, which took place on July 22.
The program of the ‘Olympic’ concerts was Pugacheva’s term paper. At that time, the singer was finishing her fourth year at the GITIS Variety Arts Faculty, majoring in Variety Direction.
On the opening day of the Olympics-80, Alla Pugacheva appeared on TV in two entertainment programs at once. At that time, the singer was already at the peak of her fame: shortly before the start of the Olympics, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Some Olympic competitions were held in other cities of the USSR. For instance, the sailing regatta was held in Tallinn; qualifying games and the quarter-final stage of the football tournament took place in Kiev, Minsk and Leningrad.
The 1980 Olympics were boycotted by more than 50 countries, who thus protested against the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan. Among them were Great Britain, Belgium, France, Switzerland and others. However, athletes from these countries were still able to perform in Moscow under the neutral Olympic flag.
However, the 22nd Summer Olympic Games became famous not only due to those boycotts. At the Moscow competitions, athletes set 74 Olympic and 36 world records. It was an unprecedented event, and no other Olympics have been able to surpass such an impressive result so far.
In the summer of 1980, the guests of Moscow not only saw the grandiose sporting events, but were also offered an extensive cultural program. It was a colorful and emotional festival of national arts of the peoples inhabiting the territory of the USSR. The program contained 6,700 events, including 144 opera and ballet performances, 455 theater performances, 1,500 symphonic, chamber and solo concerts, dozens of exhibitions and excursions.
As part of the entertainment program, Alla Pugacheva gave a series of new concerts at the Variety Theater especially for the foreign guests who came to the Olympics. For the first time, the prima donna performed several songs: The Confession, Hush, O People, The Trouble, This Path is So Vexatious, When I Become Grandmother, Go Away when Leaving. The museum’s exposition features a poster for one of Alla Pugacheva’s performances, which took place on July 22.
The program of the ‘Olympic’ concerts was Pugacheva’s term paper. At that time, the singer was finishing her fourth year at the GITIS Variety Arts Faculty, majoring in Variety Direction.
On the opening day of the Olympics-80, Alla Pugacheva appeared on TV in two entertainment programs at once. At that time, the singer was already at the peak of her fame: shortly before the start of the Olympics, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
