1998 in Russia

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

March

 * 18 March - Kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov

August

 * 17 August - 1998 Russian financial crisis

October

 * 3 October - 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya

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

 * 26 March - Nikolay Dubinin, biologist (b. 1907)
 * 4 June - Lev Rokhlin, former army officer and Yeltsin critic, murdered (b. 1947)
 * 8 June - Larisa Yudina, opposition journalist, assassinated (b. 1920)
 * 23 August - Alexey Andreevich Anselm, physicist (b. 1934)
 * 3 December - Albert Leman, composer (b. 1915)
 * 23 December - Anatoly Rybakov, writer (b. 1911)