Ruler · 1931 – 2007

Boris Yeltsin

Lived 1931 – 2007; engineer, politician. President of Russia (Russia), 1991 – 1999; also in the line of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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Lived: 1931 – 2007; 76 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Russia

Russia · the 1st of 5 dated reigns · 1991 – 2012

Boris Yeltsin1991 – 1999

Viktor Chernomyrdin1996

Vladimir Putin2000 – 2008

Dmitry Medvedev2008 – 2012

1 after

left alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1991 – 1999 · 8 years · came to it aged 60

Came to it: elected
Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

Elected chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet in 1990, Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in 1991, becoming the first popularly-elected head of state in Russian history.

Amid growing internal pressure, he resigned by the end of 1999 and was succeeded as president by his chosen successor, Vladimir Putin, whom he had appointed prime minister a few months earlier.

Also in the line of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (2nd of 3).

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