1958 in the Soviet Union

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← 1957 1956 1955 1958 in the Soviet Union → 1959 1960 1961
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of the Soviet Union List of years 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.^[1]

August

• 23–27 August – 1958 Grozny riots^{[citation needed]}

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)

See also

• 1958 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1958

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