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
Governors
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)
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