title: 1958 in the Soviet Union
text: # 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)
  