Events from the year 1998 in Russia.

• 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

• 18 March - Kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov

• 17 August - 1998 Russian financial crisis^[1]

• 3 October - 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya^[2]

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 3 — Lev Rokhlin, army officer (b. 1947)
• July 12 — Arkady Ostashev, mechanical engineer (b. 1925)
• July 23 — Vladimir Dudintsev, writer (b. 1918)

• 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 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 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 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 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)