1958 in the Soviet Union

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, Nikita Khrushchev

  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

  Full date missing

• Olga Tsepilova, sociologist