Jabarkan Pergelaran artistik dari Upacara pembukaan Olimpiade Musim Panas 1980

Persembahan Tema Friendship of the Peoples (Persahabatan Rakyat): adalah dance suite yang menampilkan tarian tradisional dari 15 republik Soviet. Final Rusia juga menampilkan troikas dan penampilan terakhir oleh para pemain dari semua republik ( untuk lagu rakyat Rusia " Kalinka ). Lagu " Wide Is My Motherland " (, dari film  Circus ) adalah juga terdengar di awal dan akhir dari suite.

Gymnasts' performance, including ribbon, ball and pommel horse displays.

Misha: Scores of performers donned as Misha, the Moscow Olympics mascot, dance in the stadium field.

Children's performance, beginning with a boys' pole horse performance, followed by a girls' doll performance. Gymnastic maneuvers were done by the performance in each part of the segment, which ended with the boys and girls mixed together, forming groups of "troikas", then leaving the scene.

Performance of acrobats and trampoline gymnastics display.

Appearance of five pillars in the configuration of the Olympic Rings. Each pillar held performers forming "human vases". Eugen Doga's famous wedding waltz from the 1978 movie "A Hunting Accident" could be heard throughout this segment. The same music would later be used during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Finale: Performers from throughout the opening ceremony re-entered the stadium as the Moscow Olympics' theme song "Moscow Gives the Start" (, Start dayot Moskva) was sung, and would later exit again. Balloons were released. The card stunt at this time was showing the Moscow 1980 Olympic logo.

Both the opening and closing ceremonies were shown in Yuri Ozerov's 1981 film O, Sport, You - the Peace! ().