Boris Yeltsin

Career overview

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician born on February 1, 1931, in Butka, Russian SFSR, USSR. He passed away on April 23, 2007, at the age of seventy-six. Within the context of the movie database, Yeltsin is credited under the stage name Boris Yeltsin and is recognized for acting, holding forty-two known credits.

Throughout his political career, Yeltsin was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990 before later standing as a political independent. Ideologically, he was viewed during his time as an independent as being aligned with liberalism and Russian nationalism. His early life included growing up in Kazan and Berezniki after being born in Butka, Ural Oblast. Following his studies at the Ural State Technical University, he worked in construction and rose through the ranks of the Communist Party, eventually becoming the First Secretary of the party's Sverdlov branch in 1976.

Domestically, Yeltsin achieved high popularity during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999, having become president in 1990 and subsequently the first popularly elected leader in the country's history the following year. While he guided Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching, economic and political crises during his presidency severely damaged his reputation, leaving him widely unpopular with the Russian population by the time he left office.