List of leaders of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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Presidents of the Russian SFSR
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Formation9 November 1917;106 years ago (1917-11-09)
First holder Lev Kamenev
Final holder Boris Yeltsin
Abolished25 December 1991;32 years ago (1991-12-25)

The following is a list of Presidents of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). It lists heads of state, heads of government, and heads of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Commonly referred to as Soviet Russia or simply Russia, [1] the Russian SFSR was a sovereign state in 1917–1922, the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922–1991, having its own legislation within the Union in 1990–91. [2]

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List of presidents

No.PortraitName
(Birth–Death)		Term of officePolitical party
Took officeLeft office
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the
All-Russian Congress of Soviets (1917–1938)
1 Lev Kamenev in 1922.jpg Lev Kamenev
(1883–1936)		9 November 191721 November 1917 Communist Party
2 Old Russia - Yakov Sverdlov 1918-1.jpg Yakov Sverdlov
(1885–1919)		21 November 191716 March 1919 Communist Party
— Vladimirskiy Mikhail Fedorovich.jpg Mikhail Vladimirsky
(1874–1951)
Acting		16 March 191930 March 1919 Communist Party
5 Kalinin M. I. (1920).jpg Mikhail Kalinin
(1875–1946)		30 March 191915 July 1938 Communist Party
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1938)
6 Andrei Zhdanov.jpg Andrei Zhdanov
(1896–1948)		15 July 193819 July 1938 Communist Party
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the
Russian SFSR (1938–1990)
7 Alexey Badaev 1912.jpg Aleksei Badayev
(1883–1951)		19 July 19389 April 1943 Communist Party
— Ivan Vlasov
(1903–1969)
Acting		9 April 19434 March 1944 Communist Party
8 Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik.jpg Nikolai Shvernik
(1888–1970)		4 March 194425 June 1946 Communist Party
9 Ivan Vlasov
(1903–1969)		25 June 19467 July 1950 Communist Party
10 Mikhail Tarasov
(1899–1970)		7 July 195016 April 1959 Communist Party
11 Nikolai Ignatov
(1901–1966)		16 April 195926 November 1959 Communist Party
12 Nikolai Organov
(1901–1982)		26 November 195920 December 1962 Communist Party
(11) Nikolai Ignatov
(1901–1966)		20 December 196214 November 1966 Communist Party
13 Mikhail Yasnov
(1906–1991)		23 December 196626 March 1985 Communist Party
14 Vladimir Orlov
(1921–1999)		26 March 19853 October 1988 Communist Party
15 Vitaly Vorotnikov
(1926–2012)		3 October 198829 May 1990 Communist Party
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1990–1991)
16 Boris Nikolaevich El'tsin.jpg Boris Yeltsin
(1931–2007) 		29 May 199010 July 1991 Independent
President of the Russian SFSR (1991)
(16) Boris Nikolaevich El'tsin.jpg Boris Yeltsin
(1931–2007) 		10 July 199125 December 1991 Independent

Heads of government

No.PortraitName
(Birth–Death)		Term of OfficePolitical Party
Took OfficeLeft Office
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the
Russian SFSR (1917–1946)
1 Lenin 1921.jpg Vladimir Lenin
(1870–1924)		8 November 191721 January 1924 Communist Party
2 Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10691, Alexej Iwanowitsch Rykow.jpg Alexei Rykov
(1881–1938)		2 February 192418 May 1929 Communist Party
3 1929-sergey syrtsov.jpg Sergei Syrtsov
(1893–1937)		18 May 19293 November 1930 Communist Party
4 Daniil Egorovich Sulimov.jpg Daniil Sulimov
(1890–1937)		3 November 193022 July 1937 Communist Party
5 Nikolai Bulganin
(1895–1975)		22 July 193717 September 1938 Communist Party
6 Vasily Vakhrushev
(1902–1947)		29 July 19392 June 1940 Communist Party
7 Khokhlov IS.jpg Ivan Khokhlov
(1895–1973)		2 June 194023 June 1943 Communist Party
8 A. Kosygin 1967.jpg Alexei Kosygin
(1904–1980)		23 June 194323 March 1946 Communist Party
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the
Russian SFSR (1946–1991)
9 Mikhail Rodionov
(1907–1950)		23 March 19469 March 1949 Communist Party
10 Boris Chernousov
(1908–1978)		9 March 194920 October 1952 Communist Party
11 Alexander Puzanov
(1906–1998)		20 October 195224 January 1956 Communist Party
12 Mikhail Yasnov
(1906–1991)		24 January 195619 December 1957 Communist Party
13 Frol Kozlov
(1908–1965)		19 December 195731 March 1958 Communist Party
14 Dmitry Polyansky
(1917–2001)		31 March 195823 November 1962 Communist Party
15 Gennadi Voronov.jpg Gennady Voronov
(1910–1994)		23 November 196223 July 1971 Communist Party
16 Mikhail Solomentsev
(1913–2008)		28 July 197124 June 1983 Communist Party
17 Vitaly Vorotnikov
(1926–2012)		24 June 19833 October 1988 Communist Party
18 Aleksandr Vlasov
(1932–2002)		3 October 198815 June 1990 Communist Party
19 Ivan Silaev (1991).jpg Ivan Silayev
(1930–2023)		18 June 199026 September 1991 Communist Party
— Oleg Lobov
(1937–2018)
Acting		26 September 199115 November 1991 Communist Party
President of the Russian SFSR
as extraordinary head of the Government (1991)
— Boris Nikolaevich El'tsin.jpg Boris Yeltsin
(1931–2007)		6 November 199125 December 1991 Independent

Heads of party

No.PortraitName
(Birth–Death)		Term of OfficePolitical Party
Took OfficeLeft Office
Chairman of the Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee for the RSFSR (1956–1966) [3]
1 Nikita Khrushchev 1962.jpg Nikita Khrushchev
(1894–1971)		27 February 195616 November 1964 Communist Party
2 Staatshoofden, portretten, Bestanddeelnr 925-6564.jpg Leonid Brezhnev
(1906–1982)		16 November 19648 April 1966 Communist Party
Chairman of the Russian Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee (1989–1990) [4]
3 GorbachevMS.jpg Mikhail Gorbachev
(1931–2022)		9 December 198916 June 1990 Communist Party
On June 16, 1990, the provision on the monopoly of the CPSU on power was excluded from Article 6 of the Constitution of the RSFSR

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References

  1. ↑ Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people (original VTsIK variant, III Congress revision), article I
  2. ↑ The Free Dictionary Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved on 22 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Бюро ЦК КПСС по РСФСР
  4. ↑ Российское бюро ЦК КПСС
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