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See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

Events from the year1998 inRussia.

• 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

• 18 March -Kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov

• 17 August -1998 Russian financial crisis^[1]

• 3 October -1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya^[2]

• 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 andMiss Earth 2017 – Fire
• 31 December -Alina Sanko, model andMiss Russia 2019

• 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, 11thFirst 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 4 —Yeranuhi Aslamazyan, graphic artist (b.1910)
• February 28
  • Ivan Arkhipov, 17thFirst Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (b.1907)
  • Arkady Shevchenko, diplomat and defector (b.1930)

• March 1 —Alexander Puzanov, 11thChairman 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 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 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 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 leaderLeonid Brezhnev (b.1929)

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

• 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 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 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 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 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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