1958 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1958 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev

Events

1958 Soviet nuclear tests

March

16 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1958

May

15 May – Sputnik 3 is launched.

August

23–27 August – 1958 Grozny riots

September

2 September – 1958 C-130 shootdown incident

Births

2 January – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, pianist
28 February – Natalya Estemirova, activist
22 June – Serhiy Kot, Ukrainian historian
21 October – Andre Geim, physicist

Full date missing

Olga Tsepilova, sociologist

Deaths

10 February – Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete