1958 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1958 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Incumbents
Events
March
- 16 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1958
May
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)
