The office of the President of the Soviet Union was introduced in 1990 during Mikhail Gorbachev 's unsuccessful reforms of the Soviet Union's one-party communist state. Gorbachev became first and last president of the Union. [2] .

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

Dec 28, 2024 · 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 stormy decade of political and economic retrenching.

On 12 June 1991, Yeltsin was elected as the first President of the Russian Federation, received 45,552,041 votes, representing 57.30 percent of the number who took part in the vote, and well ahead of Nikolai Ryzhkov, who, despite the support of …

Since May 8, 2008, Vladimir Putin is a Prime Minister of Russia. On March 4, 2012, he was elected President of Russia and inaugurated on May 7, 2012. On March 18, 2018, he was re-elected President of Russia. Assumed office on May 7, 2018. Won Russia’s presidential election held on March 15–17, 2024. Assumed office on May 7, 2024.

Oct 22, 2018 · 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.

On 12 June Mr Yeltsin was elected first president of the Russian Federation in a national election, winning more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round. Mr Yeltsin was re-elected president on July 3 winning almost 54 percent of the vote in the second round.

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 and free...

The current president is Vladimir Putin. Boris Yeltsin was the first president of Russia, Vladimir Putin was second and fourth, and Dmitry Medvedev was the third.

Boris Yeltsin, (born Feb. 1, 1931, Sverdlovsk, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died April 23, 2007, Moscow, Russia), Russian politician and president of Russia (1990–99). After attending the Urals Polytechnic Institute, he worked at construction projects in western Russia (1955–68).