The following lists events that happened during 1958 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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• 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)

• 1958 Soviet nuclear tests

• 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

• 10 February – Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete (born 1899)

• 1958 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• List of Soviet films of 1958