# 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 (b. 1924)
* January 6 — Georgy Sviridov, composer (b. 1915)
* January 11 — Georgi Vins, baptist pastor (b. 1928)
* January 15
** Gennady Kolbin, 11th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (b. 1927)
** Boris Tatushin, football player and manager (b. 1933)
* January 16 — Gayane Chebotaryan, composer and musicologist (b. 1918)
* January 19 — Larisa Tarkovskaya, film director and actress (b. 1933)

### February

* February 4 — Yeranuhi Aslamazyan, graphic artist (b. 1910)
* February 28
** Ivan Arkhipov, 17th First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1907)
** Arkady Shevchenko, diplomat and defector (b. 1930)

### March

* March 1 — Alexander Puzanov, 11th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (b. 1906)
* March 15 — Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, football player (b. 1944)
* March 16 — Lydia Delectorskaya, model (b. 1910)
* March 21 — Galina Ulanova, ballet dancer (b. 1910)
* March 26 — Nikolay Dubinin, biologist and academician (b. 1907)

### April

* April 7 — Vitaly Galkov, sprint canoer and Olympian (b. 1939)
* April 9 — Aleksey Spiridonov, athlete and Olympic medalist (b. 1951)
* April 19 — Vladimir Sokolov, scientist (b. 1928)

### May

* May 6 — Aleksei Gritsai, artist (b. 1914)
* May 17 — Nina Dorliak, soprano and voice teacher (b. 1908)
* May 26
** Emil Braginsky, screenwriter (b. 1921)
** Sergey Yablonsky, mathematician (b. 1924)

### June

* June 4 — Lev Rokhlin, former army officer and Yeltsin critic, murdered (b. 1947)
* June 8 — Larisa Yudina, opposition journalist (b. 1945)
* June 11 — Alexei Eriomin, realist painter (b. 1919)
* June 26 — Vladimir Petukhov, politician (b. 1949)
* June 30 — Galina Brezhneva, socialite and daughter of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (b. 1929)

### July

* July 3 — Lev Rokhlin, army officer (b. 1947)
* July 12 — Arkady Ostashev, mechanical engineer (b. 1925)
* July 23 — Vladimir Dudintsev, writer (b. 1918)

### August

* August 4 — Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut and engineer (b. 1930)
* August 5 — Yevgeny Shabayev, artist gymnast (b. 1973)
* August 11 — Sergei Vonsovsky, physicist (b. 1910)
* August 19
** Vasily Arkhipov, naval officer (b. 1926)
** Yuri Yappa, theoretical physicist (b. 1927)
** Boris Kadomtsev, plasma physicist (b. 1928)
* August 20
** Ivan Godlevsky, painter (b. 1908)
** Oleg Prokofiev, artist, sculptor and poet (b. 1928)
* August 23 — Nikolai Kolesov, footballer (b. 1956)
* August 24 — Alexey Anselm, physicist (b. 1934)
* August 25 — Vyacheslav Kochemasov, diplomat and politician (b. 1918)
* August 28 — Nikolai Zateyev, submariner (b. 1926)

### September

* September 7 — Valeri Frid, screenwriter (b. 1922)
* September 18 — Vadim Rogovin, Trotskyist historian and sociologist (b. 1937)
* September 21 — Vladimir Pokhilko, entrepreneur (b. 1954)
* September 24 — Genrikh Altshuller, engineer, inventor and writer (b. 1926)

### October

* October 6 — Rolan Bykov, actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
* October 10 — Konstantin Petrzhak, nuclear physicist (b. 1907)
* October 13 — Dmitry Filippov, politician and industrialist (b. 1944)
* October 21 — Tatyana Tolmachova, figure skater (b. 1907)
* October 24 — Ardalion Ignatyev, track and field athlete and Olympic medalist (b. 1930)
* October 25 — Gavriil Malysh, painter, watercolorist and graphic artist (b. 1907)

### November

* November 1 — Stanislav Zhuk, skater and coach (b. 1935)
* November 7 — Vladimir Matskevich, apparatchik and ambassador (b. 1909)
* November 16 — Alexander Smorchkov, fighter pilot during WWII (b. 1919)
* November 17 — Efim Geller, chess player (b. 1925)
* November 20 — Galina Starovoytova, dissident (b. 1946)
* November 22 — Vladimir Demikhov, scientist and organ transplantation pioneer (b. 1916)
* November 27 — Andrey Sergeev, writer and translator (b. 1933)

### December

* December 3 — Albert Leman, composer (b. 1915)
* December 12 — Vadim Gulyaev, water polo player and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
* December 17 — Antonina Khudyakova, air force officer during WWII (b. 1917)
* December 18 — Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut (b. 1926)
* December 23 — Anatoly Rybakov, writer (b. 1911)