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Boris Yeltsin

president of Russia

Also known as: Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

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In full:: Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

Born:: February 1, 1931, Sverdlovsk [now Yekaterinburg], Russia, U.S.S.R.

Died:: April 23, 2007, Moscow, Russia (aged 76)

Title / Office:: president (1991-1999), Russia; president (1991-1991), Russia; Congress of People’s Deputies (1989), Soviet Union; Politburo (1986-1988), Soviet Union; mayor (1985-1987), Moscow

Founder:: Commonwealth of Independent States

Political Affiliation:: Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Boris Yeltsin (born February 1, 1931, Sverdlovsk [now Yekaterinburg], Russia, U.S.S.R.—died April 23, 2007, Moscow, Russia) Russian politician who became president of Russia in 1990. In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country’s history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching until his resignation on the eve of 2000. Yeltsin attended the Urals Polytechnic Institute and worked at various construction projects in the Sverdlovsk oblast from 1955 to 1968, joining the Communist Party in 1961. In 1968 he began full-time work in the party and in 1976 became first secretary of the ...(100 of 953 words)

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