Boxing competitions in the framework of the VII Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR were held from July 22 to August 4, 1979 in Moscow . This tournament also had the status of the 45th USSR Boxing Championship .
Medalists
| Weight category | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| First lightest (up to 48 kg) | Camille Safin Alma-ata | Oleg Deulin Tbilisi | Shamil Sabirov Krasnodar Usen Omarov |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightest (up to 51 kg) | Alexander Tkachenko Donetsk | Alexander Mikhailov Vladivostok | Kanat Zhaksybaev Alma-ata Alexey Nikiforov |
| Lightest (up to 54 kg) | Samson Khachatryan Yerevan | Serik Nurkazov Karaganda | Vladimir Serdyuk Kherson Amiran Khizanishvili |
| Lightweight (up to 57 kg) | Victor Rybakov Moscow | Victor Navros Kiev | Alexander Vorobyov Leningrad Ashot Avetisyan |
| Easy (up to 60 kg) | Victor Demyanenko Alma-ata | Vasily Solomin Moscow | Yuri Prokhorov Vitebsk Vladimir Sorokin |
| First welterweight (up to 63.5 kg) | Israel Hakobkohyan Yerevan | Valery Grishkovets Frunze | Serik Konakbaev Jambul R. Chalaveyus |
| Welterweight (up to 67 kg) | Alexander Koshkin Moscow | Valery Rachkov Alma-ata | Mikhail Terentyev Leningrad Algirdas Mayauskas |
| First middle (up to 71 kg) | Khamzat Dzhabrailov The terrible | Turaide Dragoons Liepaja | Murman Taktakishvili Tbilisi Yuri Balyaba |
| Second middle (up to 75 kg) | Anatoly Koptev Vladivostok | Vladimir Shin Tashkent | S. Mikhalev Moscow Victor Savchenko |
| Light heavy (up to 81 kg) | Algirdas Jančauskas Vilnius | Albert Nicolan Yerevan | David Kvachadze Tbilisi Yuri Gagarin |
| Heavy (over 81 kg) | Khoren Indjan Yerevan | Victor Ulyanich Minsk | Mikhail Subbotin Moscow Igor Vysotsky |