Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a man who could appreciate
a good bowl of vodka.
BORIS YELTSIN BRIEF
BIOGRAPHY
1931, February 1 - Birth in Yekaterinburg, formerly Sverdlovsk
1953 Construction worker
1961 Joins the Communist Party
1976 First secretary of party committee of Yekaterinburg
1981 Member of Central Committee
1985 Gorbachev appoints
Yeltsin head of Moscow communist party
1986 Member of
politburo
1988 Has to leave politburo because of his criticism of the reforms
which he thinks are too little and too slow
1990 President of the Russian republic; leaves the Communist Party
1991 Soviet Union dissolves; Russian independence; Chechnya seeks independence from
Russia; war with Chechnya
1993 Dissolves Congress; START II nuclear disarmament treaty with
United States signed
1996 Heart attack but wins re-elections
1997 Peace with Chechnya
1998 Dissolves Cabinet
1999 Fighting with Chechnya again
1999, December 31 - Resigns as president, appoints Vladimir Putin
acting president
2007, April 23 - Death in Moscow
