Boris Yeltsin
1931 – 2007
Russian

President. He brought down the Soviet Union and ended Communism in Russia.

Contemporaries
1896–1974Giorgiy Zhukov
1883–1936Grigoriy Zinoviev
1884–1937Yevgeny Zamyatin
1895–c. 1939Nikolai Yezhov
1896–1934Lev Vygotsky
1883–1954Andrey Vyshinsky
1879–1940Leon Trotsky
1902–1982Mikhail Suslov
c. 1886–1934Alexandre Stavisky
1906–1977Alexey Stakhanov
1891–1945Maria Skobtsova
Born 1948Natan Shcharansky
1921–1989Andrey Sakharov
1881–1938Alexey Rykov
1885–c. 1939Karl Radek
1938–1993Rudolf Nureyev
1890–1950Vaslav Nijinsky
1902–1977Alexander Luria
1894–1971Nikita Khrushchev
1881–1970Alexander Kerensky
Born 1963Gary Kasparov
1893–1991Lazar Kaganovich
Born 1931Mikhail Gorbachev
1880–1942Michel Fokine
1888–1938Nikolay Bukharin
1871–1944Sergey Bulgakov
1909–1997Sir Isaiah Berlin
1899–1953Lavrenti Beria
Born 1948Mikhail Baryshnikov
1904–1983George Balanchine
1920–1992Isaac Asimov