Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician 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.
- Occupation
- civil engineer, politician, master builder, engineer
- Position held
- Sverdlovsk regional committee of CPSU, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union, Russia
- Born
- February 1, 1931
