1998 in Russia
# 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

## Events

### 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

## 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)
