1998 in Russia explained

Events from the year 1998 in Russia.

Incumbents

- - - 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

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

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)

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)

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 leader Leonid Brezhnev (b. 1929)

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)

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)