1998 in Russia
Events from the year 1998 in Russia.
Incumbents
- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister:
- * until 23 March: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- * 23 March-24 April: vacant
- * 24 April-23 August: Yevgeny Primakov
- * 23 August-11 September: vacant
- * starting 11 September: Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov
- Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev
Events
March
- 18 March - Kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov
August
- 17 August - 1998 Russian financial crisis
October
- 3 October - 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya
Births
- 29 January - Mikhail Lysov, professional football player
- 2 February - Anton Antonov, football player
- 17 February - Morgenshtern, rapper, singer, record producer, and songwriter
- 5 March - Vladislav Artemiev, chess player
- 12 March - Mikhail Maltsev, professional ice hockey forward
- 26 March - Georgi Makhatadze, football player
- 10 April - Anna Pogorilaya, figure skater
- 11 April - Vera Biryukova, group rhythmic gymnast
- 2 May - Vasilisa Davankova, ice dancer and pair skater
- 26 May - Aleksandra Semenova, rhythmic gymnast
- 1 June - Aleksandra Soldatova, rhythmic gymnast
- 5 June
- *Maxim Burov, freestyle skier
- *Yulia Lipnitskaya, figure skater
- 8 July - Daria Spiridonova, artistic gymnast
- 13 July - Ilya Konovalov, ice hockey goaltender
- 13 August
- *Dina Averina, rhythmic gymnast
- *Arina Averina, rhythmic gymnast
- 29 August - Daria Ustinova, backstroke swimmer
- 7 September - Ivan Ivanchenko, football player
- 29 October
- *Maria Kharenkova, artistic gymnast
- *Lada Akimova, model and Miss Earth 2017 – Fire
- 31 December - Alina Sanko, model and Miss Russia 2019
Deaths
January
- January 2 — Sergei Frolov, realist painter and graphic artist
- January 6 — Georgy Sviridov, composer
- January 11 — Georgi Vins, baptist pastor
- January 15
- *Gennady Kolbin, 11th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
- *Boris Tatushin, football player and manager
- January 16 — Gayane Chebotaryan, composer and musicologist
- January 19 — Larisa Tarkovskaya, film director and actress
February
- February 4 — Yeranuhi Aslamazyan, graphic artist
- February 28
- *Ivan Arkhipov, 17th First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
- *Arkady Shevchenko, diplomat and defector
March
- March 1 — Alexander Puzanov, 11th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR
- March 15 — Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, football player
- March 16 — Lydia Delectorskaya, model
- March 21 — Galina Ulanova, ballet dancer
- March 26 — Nikolay Dubinin, biologist and academician
April
- April 7 — Vitaly Galkov, sprint canoer and Olympian
- April 9 — Aleksey Spiridonov, athlete and Olympic medalist
- April 19 — Vladimir Sokolov, scientist
May
- May 6 — Aleksei Gritsai, artist
- May 17 — Nina Dorliak, soprano and voice teacher
- May 26
- *Emil Braginsky, screenwriter
- *Sergey Yablonsky, mathematician
June
- June 4 — Lev Rokhlin, former army officer and Yeltsin critic, murdered
- June 8 — Larisa Yudina, opposition journalist
- June 11 — Alexei Eriomin, realist painter
- June 26 — Vladimir Petukhov, politician
- June 30 — Galina Brezhneva, socialite and daughter of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
July
- July 3 — Lev Rokhlin, army officer
- July 12 — Arkady Ostashev, mechanical engineer
- July 23 — Vladimir Dudintsev, writer
August
- August 4 — Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut and engineer
- August 5 — Yevgeny Shabayev, artist gymnast
- August 11 — Sergei Vonsovsky, physicist
- August 19
- *Vasily Arkhipov, naval officer
- *Yuri Yappa, theoretical physicist
- *Boris Kadomtsev, plasma physicist
- August 20
- *Ivan Godlevsky, painter
- *Oleg Prokofiev, artist, sculptor and poet
- August 23 — Nikolai Kolesov, footballer
- August 24 — Alexey Anselm, physicist
- August 25 — Vyacheslav Kochemasov, diplomat and politician
- August 28 — Nikolai Zateyev, submariner
September
- September 7 — Valeri Frid, screenwriter
- September 18 — Vadim Rogovin, Trotskyist historian and sociologist
- September 21 — Vladimir Pokhilko, entrepreneur
- September 24 — Genrikh Altshuller, engineer, inventor and writer
October
- October 6 — Rolan Bykov, actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter
- October 10 — Konstantin Petrzhak, nuclear physicist
- October 13 — Dmitry Filippov, politician and industrialist
- October 21 — Tatyana Tolmachova, figure skater
- October 24 — Ardalion Ignatyev, track and field athlete and Olympic medalist
- October 25 — Gavriil Malysh, painter, watercolorist and graphic artist
November
- November 1 — Stanislav Zhuk, skater and coach
- November 7 — Vladimir Matskevich, apparatchik and ambassador
- November 16 — Alexander Smorchkov, fighter pilot during WWII
- November 17 — Efim Geller, chess player
- November 20 — Galina Starovoytova, dissident
- November 22 — Vladimir Demikhov, scientist and organ transplantation pioneer
- November 27 — Andrey Sergeev, writer and translator
December
- December 3 — Albert Leman, composer
- December 12 — Vadim Gulyaev, water polo player and Olympic champion
- December 17 — Antonina Khudyakova, air force officer during WWII
- December 18 — Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut
- December 23 — Anatoly Rybakov, writer