Title: Boris Yeltsin | Biography & Facts | Britannica
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Boris Yeltsin
president of Russia
Political rise and fall
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Boris Yeltsin

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Alternative Title: Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin, in full Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, (born February 1, 1931, Sverdlovsk [now Yekaterinburg], Russia, U.S.S.R.—died April 23, 2007, Moscow, Russia), Russian politician who became president of Russia in 1990. In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country’s history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching until his resignation on the eve of 2000. Britannica Quiz
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Yeltsin attended the Urals Polytechnic Institute and worked at various construction projects in the Sverdlovsk oblast from 1955 to 1968, joining the Communist Party in 1961. In 1968 he began full-time work in the party and in 1976 became first secretary of the Sverdlovsk oblast party committee. Thereafter he came to know Mikhail Gorbachev, then his counterpart in the city of Stavropol.