Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin[h][i] (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of …

Apr 19, 2026 · Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician who became president of Russia in 1990. The following year he became the first popularly elected leader in the country’s history, guiding Russia through a …

Jun 9, 2025 · Boris Yeltsin (February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007) was a Soviet Union politician who became the first president of the Russian Federation at the end of the Cold War. Yeltsin served two …

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin came to power on a wave of high expectations. On …

Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) was a Soviet politician and the first democratically elected president of Russia. He is best known for short-circuiting the 1991 coup that briefly removed Mikhail Gorbachev from …

Early life Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin was born into a Russian working-class family on February 1, 1931, in the small Siberian village of Butko. His parents were Nikolai and Klavdia Yeltsin. He grew up with a …

YELTSIN Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He came to power with high hopes and promise. He clinged to power despite poor health and attacks by his enemies …

Yeltsin was the first head of state to recognize Ukraine’s independence, although he had some reservations. When Leonid Kravchuk refused to sign on to the Union Treaty during the Belavezha …

Nov 9, 2009 · Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. Though a Communist Party member for much of his life, he eventually came to believe in both democratic …

Boris N. Yeltsin, the burly provincial politician who became the first freely elected leader of Russia and a towering figure of his time when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union ...