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)

See also 1958 in fine arts of the Soviet Union List of Soviet films of 1958

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