1998 in Russia

none 1998 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 30em Amur Oblast: Anatoly Belonogov (CPRF) Arkhangelsk Oblast: Anatoly Yefremov (Independent) Astrakhan Oblast: Anatoly Guzhvin (NDR) Belgorod Oblast: Yevgeny Savchenko (NDR) Bryansk Oblast: Yury Lodkin (CPRF) Chelyabinsk Oblast: Pyotr Sumin (PPUR) Irkutsk Oblast: Boris Govorin (Independent) Ivanovo Oblast: Vladislav Tikhomirov (Independent) Kaliningrad Oblast: Leonid Gorbenko (Independent) Kaluga Oblast: Valery Sudarenkov (Independent) Kemerovo Oblast: Aman Tuleyev (Independent / PPUR ally) Kirov Oblast: Vladimir Shaklein (Independent) Kostroma Oblast: Viktor Shershunov (CPRF) Kurgan Oblast: Oleg Bogomolov (Independent) Kursk Oblast: Alexander Rutskoy (Derzhava) Leningrad Oblast: Vadim Gustov (Independent, until September 21), Valery Serdyukov (Independent, starting September 21) Lipetsk Oblast: Mikhail Narolin (NDR, until April 12), Oleg Korolyov (Independent, starting April 12) Magadan Oblast: Valentin Tsvetkov (Independent) Moscow Oblast: Anatoly Tyazhlov (NDR) Murmansk Oblast: Yuri Yevdokimov (Independent) Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Ivan Sklyarov (NDR) Novgorod Oblast: Mikhail Prusak (NDR) Novosibirsk Oblast: Vitaly Mukha (Independent) Omsk Oblast: Leonid Polezhayev (NDR) Orenburg Oblast: Vladimir Elagin (NDR) Oryol Oblast: Yegor Stroyev (Independent) Penza Oblast: Anatoly Kovlyagin (Independent, until April 12), Vasily Bochkarev (Independent, starting April 12) Pskov Oblast: Yevgeny Mikhailov (LDPR) Rostov Oblast: Vladimir Chub (NDR) Ryazan Oblast: Vyacheslav Lyubimov (CPRF) Sakhalin Oblast: Igor Farkhutdinov (Independent) Samara Oblast: Konstantin Titov (NDR) Saratov Oblast: Dmitry Ayatskov (Independent) Smolensk Oblast: Anatoly Glushenkov (Independent, until May 29), Aleksandr Prokhorov (CPRF, starting May 29) Tambov Oblast: Aleksandr Ryabov (CPRF) Tomsk Oblast: Viktor Kress (NDR) Tula Oblast: Vasily Starodubtsev (CPRF) Tver Oblast: Vladimir Platov (Independent) Tyumen Oblast: Leonid Roketsky (Independent) Ulyanovsk Oblast: Yuri Goryachev (Independent) Vladimir Oblast: Nikolay Vinogradov (CPRF) Volgograd Oblast: Nikolai Maksyuta (CPRF) Vologda Oblast: Vyacheslav Pozgalyov (Independent) Voronezh Oblast: Ivan Shabanov (Independent / CPRF ally) Yaroslavl Oblast: Anatoly Lisitsyn (NDR) Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Nikolay Volkov (Independent) Events March 18 March - Kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov August 17 August - 1998 Russian financial crisis"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. http://www.cbr.ru/eng/press/JOINT.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150131090423/http://www.cbr.ru/eng/press/JOINT.htm 31 January 2015 20 May 2012 October 3 October - 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in ChechnyaBBC News Europe Hostages alive, says Chechen president https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/192935.stm 2023-01-03 news.bbc.co.uk 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) References External links 1998 in 1998 Category:1990s in Russia Category:Years of the 20th century in Russia Russia Russia Russia