1958 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1958 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Incumbents

 * First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev
 * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov
 * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Bulganin (until 27 March), Nikita Khrushchev (starting 27 March)

Events

 * 1958 Soviet nuclear tests

March

 * 16 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1958

May

 * 15 May – Sputnik 3 is launched.

August

 * 23–27 August – 1958 Grozny riots

September

 * 2 September – 1958 C-130 shootdown incident

Births

 * 2 January – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, pianist
 * 28 February – Natalya Estemirova, activist (died 2009)
 * 22 June – Serhiy Kot, Ukrainian historian (died 2022)
 * 21 October – Andre Geim, physicist

Full date missing

 * Olga Tsepilova, sociologist

Deaths

 * 10 February – Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete (born 1899)