Boris Yeltsin

1931-02-01 - 2007-04-23 Contemporaries

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1931–2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999, having previously served as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR from 1990 to 1991. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, then stood as a political independent aligned with liberalism.