1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony

Sequence of events

• Countdown of Kremlin Clock chimes at 19:00 Moscow Time.
• Fanfare by the Herald Trumpeters: "Moscow Fanfare" by Soviet musician and composer A. Golovin
• Vertical Red flags with the emblem of the Moscow Olympics on them entered, along with marshals and linemen. The Card stunt was then showing the Moscow Olympics logo, with rays spreading from it.
• Flag bearers enter the stadium.
• Athletes enter the stadium.
• Athletes gather in the stadium, as gymnasts and performers carrying multicoloured vertical flags enter.
• Raising of the Soviet national flag, to the Soviet national anthem.
• Raising of the Greek national flag, to the Greek national anthem.
• Speech by the IOC President Lord Killanin, in English. He closes the Games, and bids for "the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Los Angeles". This was his final Olympic message as IOC President as the position was passed on to Juan Antonio Samaranch.
• Lowering of the Olympic flag and singing of the Olympic Anthem performed by the same musical ensemble and using the same arrangement as the opening ceremony 15 days earlier.
• Extinguishing of the Olympic Flame, following a depiction of a "fading light" sourced from the flame.
• Exit of the Olympic flag, to the tune of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" and amidst fireworks.
• Exit of the athletes, marshals, multicoloured flag bearers, and gymnasts. This was followed by the card stunt feature "Crying Misha" which depicts Misha crying at the same time.
• Artistic performances follow the ceremony proper.
• *Performance by the Massed Military Bands of the Moscow Military District, Armed Forces of the USSR, conducted by the Senior Director of Music of the Armed Forces Bands Service, Major General Nikolai Mikhailov
• *Performance of gymnasts, acrobats and ribbon ballet dancers, eventually forming a picture frame.
• *Giant Matryoshka dolls entered, taking places in each side of the stadium.
• *Dance performance by performers representing some of the Soviet Union's ethnic groups and peoples.
• *The Grand Finale: Misha's head appeared on the card stunt. A giant effigy of Misha, mounted on balloons, then entered the stadium.
• *Following this: the singing of the finale song "Farewell, Moscow". The song was sung by Lev Leshchenko and Tatiana Ansiferova.
• *The Misha effigy was then released into the sky while in the final seconds of the song as the audience gave a loud applause.
• *Performers waltz and dance in a farewell celebration. A fireworks display then happened around the Central Lenin Stadium grounds, the second such display during the ceremony. Afterwards, amidst the fireworks lighting up the night sky, all the performers exit with the song "Stadium of my Dreams" playing in the background with a highlights video of the Olympiad playing in the scoreboard.

  Anthems

• Red Army Choir – Soviet national anthem
• Red Army Choir – Greek national anthem
• Red Army Choir and the Bolshoi Theater Chorus – Olympic Hymn

  Legacy