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    Boris Yeltsin

    Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia

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  1. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin [a] ( Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla (j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] ⓘ; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) 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 from 1961 to ...

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    Boris Yeltsin was a Russian politician who had a net worth of $2 million at the time of his death in 2007. Boris Yeltsin served as the first president of Russia and is credited with transforming Russia's economy.

    Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931, in Butka, Ural Oblast, and then grew up in Kazan, Tatar. He was born into a low-income Russian family who had lived in the area since the 18thcentury. His father was Nikolai Yeltsin, and his mother was Klavdiya Vasilyevna. Yeltsin was not very close to his father, who was abusive to his children and wife. Yelts...

    By 1968, Yeltsin began working full-time for the Communist Party. In 1976, he became the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk oblast committee. During his time in this role, he became friends with Mikhail Gorbachev. At the time, Gorbachev was also working in government in the city of Stavropol. After Gorbachev became the leader of Russia, he selected ...

    In 1989, he won a seat in the U.S.S.R Congress of People's Deputies after Gorbachev had introduced competitive elections in a landslide vote. The following year, in May of 1990, the parliament of the Russian S.F.S.F. elected Yeltsin chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federation Socialist Republic, despite the fact that Gorbachev s...

    In July 1991, Yeltsin won the majority of the popular vote in the democratic presidential election for the Russian republic. In doing so, he defeated Gorbachev's preferred candidate. A few months later, a coup was staged in an attempt to overthrow Gorbachev, but thanks in large part to Yeltsin, the coup failed. However, the attempted coup did destr...

    Yeltsin married Naina Iosifovna Girina, a fellow student whom he had met in college, in September of 1956. She worked for most of her life at a scientific research institute. The couple had their first daughter together, Yelena, in 1957. They had a second daughter in 1960 named Tatyana. During his first term as president, Yeltsin suffered from hear...

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