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{{Cite web |title="Joint Statement by the Government of the Russian Federation and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation On the Exchange Rate Policy", 17 August 1998. |url=http://www.cbr.ru/eng/press/JOINT.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131090423/http://www.cbr.ru/eng/press/JOINT.htm |archive-date=31 January 2015 |access-date=20 May 2012}}
=October=
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)
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