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)