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Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

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01 Feb 1931
23 Apr 2007
Butka, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Biography

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism and Russian nationalism. Yeltsin was born in Butka, Ural Oblast. He grew up in Kazan and Berezniki. After...

Also Known As

Boris Nikolajewitsch Jelzin, Boris Nikolaevič El'cin, Boris Eltsine, Boris Ieltsine

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