Boris Yeltsin
- Born
- 1 February 1931
- Died
- 23 April 2007 (aged 76)
- Place of birth
- Butka, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Talitsa Raion, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia]
- Birth name
- Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
- Height
- 187 cm
- Known for
- Actor
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 - 23 April 2007) was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism and Russian nationalism.
