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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born in Butka (Ural, Russia) in 1931. After growing up in Kazan and Berezniki, he worked in construction after graduating from the Ural State Technical University. A member of the Communist Party, he quickly rose through the ranks and in 1976 became first secretary of the party committee for the Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Yeltsin initially supported the perestroika reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He later criticised these reforms, considering them too moderate, and called for a transition to a multi-party representative democracy. In 1987, he was the first to resign from the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1990, he was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia and, in 1991, President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Yeltsin allied himself with various non-Russian nationalist leaders and played a decisive role in the official dissolution of the Soviet Union in December of that year. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the RSFSR became the Russian Federation, an independent state. During this transition, Yeltsin remained in office as president. He was then re-elected in the 1996 Russian presidential election.

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- Historical Chronicles with Nikolay Svanidze, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

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Boris ELTSINE (Борис Николаевич ЕЛЬЦИН) 1931-2007