List of leaders of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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]

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

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
(1883–1936)
9 November 191721 November 1917Communist Party
2 Yakov Sverdlov
(1885–1919)
21 November 191716 March 1919Communist Party
Mikhail Vladimirsky
(1874–1951)
Acting
16 March 191930 March 1919Communist Party
5 Mikhail Kalinin
(1875–1946)
30 March 191915 July 1938Communist Party
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1938)
6 Andrei Zhdanov
(1896–1948)
15 July 193819 July 1938Communist Party
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the
Russian SFSR
(1938–1990)
7 Aleksei Badayev
(1883–1951)
19 July 19389 April 1943Communist Party
Ivan Vlasov
(1903–1969)
Acting
9 April 19434 March 1944Communist Party
8 Nikolai Shvernik
(1888–1970)
4 March 194425 June 1946Communist Party
9Ivan Vlasov
(1903–1969)
25 June 19467 July 1950Communist Party
10Mikhail Tarasov
(1899–1970)
7 July 195016 April 1959Communist Party
11Nikolai Ignatov
(1901–1966)
16 April 195926 November 1959Communist Party
12Nikolai Organov
(1901–1982)
26 November 195920 December 1962Communist Party
(11)Nikolai Ignatov
(1901–1966)
20 December 196214 November 1966Communist Party
13Mikhail Yasnov
(1906–1991)
23 December 196626 March 1985Communist Party
14Vladimir Orlov
(1921–1999)
26 March 19853 October 1988Communist Party
15Vitaly Vorotnikov
(1926–2012)
3 October 198829 May 1990Communist Party
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1990–1991)
16 Boris Yeltsin
(1931–2007)
29 May 199010 July 1991Independent
President of the Russian SFSR (1991)
(16) Boris Yeltsin
(1931–2007)
10 July 199125 December 1991Independent

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 Vladimir Lenin
(1870–1924)
8 November 191721 January 1924Communist Party
2 Alexei Rykov
(1881–1938)
2 February 192418 May 1929Communist Party
3 Sergei Syrtsov
(1893–1937)
18 May 19293 November 1930Communist Party
4 Daniil Sulimov
(1890–1937)
3 November 193022 July 1937Communist Party
5Nikolai Bulganin
(1895–1975)
22 July 193717 September 1938Communist Party
6Vasily Vakhrushev
(1902–1947)
29 July 19392 June 1940Communist Party
7 Ivan Khokhlov
(1895–1973)
2 June 194023 June 1943Communist Party
8 Alexei Kosygin
(1904–1980)
23 June 194323 March 1946Communist Party
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the
Russian SFSR (1946–1991)
9Mikhail Rodionov
(1907–1950)
23 March 19469 March 1949Communist Party
10Boris Chernousov
(1908–1978)
9 March 194920 October 1952Communist Party
11Alexander Puzanov
(1906–1998)
20 October 195224 January 1956Communist Party
12Mikhail Yasnov
(1906–1991)
24 January 195619 December 1957Communist Party
13Frol Kozlov
(1908–1965)
19 December 195731 March 1958Communist Party
14Dmitry Polyansky
(1917–2001)
31 March 195823 November 1962Communist Party
15 Gennady Voronov
(1910–1994)
23 November 196223 July 1971Communist Party
16Mikhail Solomentsev
(1913–2008)
28 July 197124 June 1983Communist Party
17Vitaly Vorotnikov
(1926–2012)
24 June 19833 October 1988Communist Party
18Aleksandr Vlasov
(1932–2002)
3 October 198815 June 1990Communist Party
19 Ivan Silayev
(1930–2023)
18 June 199026 September 1991Communist Party
Oleg Lobov
(1937–2018)
Acting
26 September 199115 November 1991Communist Party
President of the Russian SFSR
as extraordinary head of the Government (1991)
Boris Yeltsin
(1931–2007)
6 November 199125 December 1991Independent

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
(1894–1971)
27 February 195616 November 1964Communist Party
2 Leonid Brezhnev
(1906–1982)
16 November 19648 April 1966Communist Party
Chairman of the Russian Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee (1989–1990)[4]
3 Mikhail Gorbachev
(1931–2022)
9 December 198916 June 1990Communist 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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