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| July 2 |
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| Death of Andrei Gromyko, foreign minister from 1957 to 1985 and then chairman of the Presidium until 1988. | 1 |
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| July 30 |
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| An unofficial opposition in the People's Congress, the “interregional group,” was formed by more than 200 Soviet deputies, with Boris Yeltsin as leader. | 2 |
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| Aug. 16 |
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| A draft law was published giving workers the right to strike. | 3 |
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| Aug. 23 |
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| Two million people formed a chain across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. | 4 |
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| Sept. 8–10 |
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| The People's Movement of the Ukraine, called Rukh, held its congress in Kiev, where it called for the restoration of Ukrainian language and cultural traditions. | 5 |
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| Sept. 23 |
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| The Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet adopted a new law defining the republic's sovereignty. | 6 |
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| Oct. 2 |
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| The Supreme Soviet imposed a ban on all strikes in key industries. | 7 |
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| Oct. 7–8 |
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| The second annual congress of the Latvian Popular Front endorsed the goal of Latvia's complete independence from the Soviet Union. It also called for a common market of the three Baltic republics. | 8 |
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| Oct. 7 |
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| More than 20,000 demonstrators in Moscow supporting an acceleration of the Soviet reform process formed a human chain stretching from Gorky Street to the northwestern suburb of Zelenograd. | 9 |
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| Nov. 10 |
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| The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet declared that certain recent legislation (nationalist legislation) adopted by Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Azerbaijan was at variance with the USSR constitution and had to be modified. | 10 |
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| Nov. 17–19 |
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| The Georgian Supreme Soviet amended the Georgian constitution, giving itself ownership of all natural resources and the right to “suspend Soviet laws and regulatory enactments” if they “run contrary to Georgian interests.” | 11 |
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| Nov. 29 |
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| Direct rule in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave, was ended, and the region was returned to Azerbaijani administration. | 12 |
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