1998 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 1998 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships (Чемпионат России по лёгкой атлетике в помещении 1998) was the 7th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Russia. It was held on 13–15 February at the Alexander Gomelsky Universal Sports Hall CSKA in Moscow. A total of 26 events (13 for men and 13 for women) were contested over the three-day competition. It was used for selection of the Russian team for the 1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

The Russian Combined Events Indoor Championships was held separately on 13–15 February in Lipetsk at the Jubilee Sports Palace.

International team selection
Following the results of the championships, taking into account the qualifying standards, the Russian team for the 1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships included:

Men
Semibore: Lev Lobodin, Aleksandr Averbukh
 * 200 m: Andrey Fedoriv
 * 400 m: Ruslan Mashchenko, Boris Gorban
 * 800 m: Sergey Kozhevnikov
 * 1500 m: Vyacheslav Shabunin†, Andrey Zadorozhnyy
 * 3000 m: Vyacheslav Shabunin†, Sergey Drygin
 * 60 m hurdles: Evgeny Pechonkin
 * High jump: Vyacheslav Voronin
 * Pole vault: Vadim Strogalev, Pyotr Bochkaryov, Igor Trandenkov
 * Long jump: Aleksey Musikhin
 * Triple jump: Denis Kapustin, Vyacheslav Taranov
 * Shot put: Pavel Chumachenko

Women

 * 200 m: Svetlana Goncharenko, Natalya Voronova
 * 400 m: Irina Rosikhina, Gulnara Safiullina
 * 800 m: Larisa Mikhaylova
 * 1500 m: Olga Komyagina
 * 3000 m: Mariya Pantyukhova, Olga Yegorova
 * 60 m hurdles: Svetlana Laukhova, Irina Korotya
 * High jump: Yelena Yelesina, Yelena Gulyayeva, Yuliya Lyakhova
 * Long jump: Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan
 * Triple jump: Yelena Lebedenko
 * Shot put: Irina Korzhanenko, Svetlana Krivelyova†
 * Pentathlon: Irina Belova, Svetlana Moskalets

† Later withdrew from the international competition