1998 in Russia
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Events from the year 1998 in Russia.
Incumbents
[edit]- 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
Events
[edit]March
[edit]- 18 March - Kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov
August
[edit]- 17 August - 1998 Russian financial crisis[1]
October
[edit]Births
[edit]- 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
[edit]January
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- July 3 — Lev Rokhlin, army officer (b. 1947)
- July 12 — Arkady Ostashev, mechanical engineer (b. 1925)
- July 23 — Vladimir Dudintsev, writer (b. 1918)
August
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ ""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". Archived from the original on 31 January 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ^ "BBC News | Europe | Hostages alive, says Chechen president". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
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