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Boris Yeltsin

1931 - 2007

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism. Yeltsin was born in Butka, Ural Oblast. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Yeltsin is the 138th most popular politician (down from 103rd in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Russia (down from 17th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Politician.

Boris Yeltsin was the first president of Russia following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was in office from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin is most famous for his decision to dissolve the Soviet Union and for his leadership in the first Chechen War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Boris Yeltsin ranks 138 out of 19,576. Before him are Ferdinand Marcos, Ashoka, Napoleon III, Al Gore, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Ivan the Terrible. After him are Heinrich Himmler, Tiberius, Harald Hardrada, George W. Bush, Philip II of Spain, and Hurrem Sultan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Boris Yeltsin ranks 2. Before him is Mikhail Gorbachev. After him are Rajneesh, Toni Morrison, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Raúl Castro, Tomas Tranströmer, James Dean, Chun Doo-hwan, Isabel Martínez de Perón, Mário Zagallo, and Robert Duvall. Among people deceased in 2007, Boris Yeltsin ranks 1. After him are Luciano Pavarotti, Ingmar Bergman, Kurt Vonnegut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ève Curie, Jean Baudrillard, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Carlo Ponti.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Yeltsin ranks 18 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Peter the Great (1672), Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Grigori Rasputin (1869), and Ivan the Terrible (1530). After him are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ayn Rand (1905), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Maxim Gorky (1868), and Lev Yashin (1929).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Boris Yeltsin ranks 9. Before him are Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), and Ivan the Terrible (1530). After him are Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), Georgy Zhukov (1896), and Nicholas I of Russia (1796).

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