First President of the Russian Federation
Soviet party and Russian political and statesman, 1st President of Russia. Elected President 2 times - June 12, 1991 and July 3, 1996, held this position from July 10, 1991 to December 31, 1999.
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931 in the Sverdlovsk region, the village of Butka, Talitsky district.
Yeltsin - biography
Father, Nikolai Ignatievich, worked as a carpenter. During the years of repression, he was imprisoned allegedly for anti-Soviet statements. Boris's mother, Klavdia Vasilievna - nee Starygina.
Boris was the eldest of her two children.
Boris Yeltsin studied well at school, according to him, but after the 7th grade 
was expelled from school for bad behavior, however, he achieved (by reaching the city party committee) that he was allowed to enter the 8th grade at another school.
In the army B.N. Yeltsin did not serve due to health reasons: as a child he was injured and lost 2 fingers on his hand.
In 1955, B. Yeltsin graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute. CM. Kirova - Faculty of Civil Engineering, majoring in civil engineering. At first he worked as an ordinary foreman, gradually advancing in his career to the position of head of the DSK.
In 1956, Boris Yeltsin started a family, choosing his classmate Naina Iosifovna Girina (baptized Anastasia) as his wife. She is a civil engineer by training, from 1955 to 1985. worked at the Sverdlovsk Institute “Vodokanalproekt” as an engineer, senior engineer, and chief project engineer.
A year later, in 1958, a daughter, Elena, was born into the Yeltsin family. In 1960 - 2nd daughter Tatyana.
The year 1961 is significant for Boris Nikolaevich in that he joined the ranks of the CPSU.
Boris Yeltsin - career in the party
In 1968, his party work began: Yeltsin took the position of head of the construction department in the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU.
1975 - further advancement up the party ladder: B.N. Yeltsin was elected secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU of Sverdlovsk, he became responsible for the development of industry in the region.
In 1981, at the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin was elected a member of the CPSU Central Committee, he headed the construction department, in this position B.N. Yeltsin worked until 1990.
In 1976 – 1985 He returned to the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU to the post of 1st Secretary.
In 1978 – 1989 B.N. Yeltsin was elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
In 1981, Boris Nikolaevich gave his first and last name to his grandson, since Boris Yeltsin had no sons, which threatened to interrupt the family line.
In 1984, Yeltsin became a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR - until 1988.
He went to work in Moscow in June 1985 as Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for construction issues.
From December 1985 to November 1987 he worked as 1st Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU.
In October 1987, at the plenum of the Central Committee B Yeltsin comes out with harsh criticism of M. Gorbachev and the party leadership. The Plenum condemned Yeltsin's speech, and soon after that Boris Nikolayevich was transferred to the position of deputy head of Gosstroy, lower in rank than the 1st Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU.
In March 1989, B.N. Yeltsin was elected people's deputy of the USSR.
In 1990, Boris Yeltsin became a people's deputy of the RSFSR, and in July of the same year he was elected chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, and he left the CPSU.
Yeltsin President of the Russian Federation
On June 12, 1991, B.N. Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Federation. After his election, B. Yeltsin’s main slogans were the fight against the privileges of the nomenklatura and the independence of Russia from the USSR.
On July 10, 1991, Boris Yeltsin took the oath of allegiance to the people of Russia and the Russian Constitution, and took office as president of the RSFSR.
In August 1991, the confrontation between Yeltsin and the putschists began, which led to a proposal to ban the activities of the Communist Party, and on August 19, Boris Yeltsin made a famous speech from a tank, in which he read out a decree on the illegitimate activities of the State Emergency Committee. The putsch is defeated, the activities of the CPSU are completely prohibited.
On November 12, 1991, the Medal of Democracy, established by the International Association of Political Consultants, was awarded to B.N. Yeltsin for democratic transformations in Russia.
In December 1991, the USSR officially ceased to exist: in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk (President of Ukraine) and Stanislav Shushkevich (President of Belarus) create and sign an agreement on the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Soon the majority of the union republics joined the Commonwealth, signing the Alma-Ata Declaration on December 21.
Russian President Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin. December 25, 1991 B.N. Yeltsin received full presidential power in Russia in connection with the resignation of USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and the actual collapse of the USSR.
1992 – 1993 - a new stage in the construction of the Russian state - privatization has begun, economic reform is being carried out, supported by President B.N. Yeltsin.
In September-October 1993, a confrontation between Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Council began, which led to the dissolution of parliament. There were riots in Moscow, the peak of which occurred on October 3-4, supporters of the Supreme Council seized the television center, the situation was brought under control only with the help of tanks.
In 1994, the 1st Chechen War began, which led to a huge number of casualties among both civilians and military personnel, as well as among law enforcement officers.
In May 1996, Boris Yeltsin was forced to sign an order in Khasavyurt to withdraw troops from Chechnya, which theoretically meant the end of the first Chechen war.
Yeltsin - years of rule
In the same year, the first term of B.N.’s presidency ended. Yeltsin, and he began the election campaign for a second term. More than 1 million signatures were submitted in support of Yeltsin. The campaign slogan is “Vote or lose.” As a result of the 1st round of elections, B.N. Yeltsin gets 35.28% of the votes. Yeltsin's main competitor in the elections is the communist G.A. Zyuganov. But after the second round with a result of 53.82% of the votes, Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Federation for a second term.
On November 5, 1996, B. Yeltsin went to the clinic, where he underwent heart surgery - coronary artery bypass grafting.
In 1998 and 1999 in Russia, as a result of unsuccessful economic policy, a default occurs, then a government crisis. At Yeltsin's instigation, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, Sergei Kiriyenko, Yevgeny Primakov, and Sergei Stepashin resigned, after which in August 1999, Secretary of the Security Council Vladimir Putin was appointed acting chairman of the government of the Russian Federation.
On December 31, 1999, in a New Year's address to the people of Russia, Boris Yeltsin announced his early resignation. Prime Minister V.V. has been entrusted with the temporary duties of head of state. Putin, who provides Yeltsin and his family with guarantees of complete security. 
After his resignation, Boris Nikolaevich and his family settled in a resort village near Moscow - Barvikha.
On April 23, 2007, Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin died in the Central Clinical Hospital of Moscow from cardiac arrest and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
He was married once, had 2 daughters, 5 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Wife - Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina (Girina) (baptized Anastasia). Daughters - Elena Okulova (married to the acting general director of the joint stock company Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines) and Tatyana Dyachenko (has a military rank - colonel, in 1997 she was an adviser to the president).
Results of Yeltsin's reign
B.N. Yeltsin is historically noted as the first popularly elected President of Russia, a transformer of the country's political structure, a radical reformer of Russia's economic course. Known for the unique decision to ban the CPSU, the course of refusal to build socialism, the decisions to dissolve the Supreme Council, he is famous for the storming of the Government House in Moscow in 1993 with the use of armored vehicles and the military campaign in Chechnya.
Political scientists and the media characterized Yeltsin as an extraordinary person, unpredictable in behavior, eccentric, power-hungry; his tenacity and cunning were also noted. Opponents of Boris Nikolayevich argued that he was characterized by cruelty, cowardice, rancor, deceit, and a low intellectual and cultural level.
In assessments of critics of the Yeltsin regime, his period of rule is often referred to as Yeltsinism. Boris Yeltsin, as president, was criticized in connection with the general negative trends in the country's development in the 1990s: a recession in the economy, the state's refusal of social obligations, a sharp decline in living standards, worsening social problems and a decrease in population in connection with this. In the second half of the 90s, he was often accused of transferring the main levers of economic management into the hands of a group of influential entrepreneurs - oligarchs and the corrupt top of the state apparatus, and his entire economic policy boiled down to lobbying the interests of one or another group of people depending on their influence.
By the end of 1992, the division of the country's inhabitants into rich and poor sharply increased. Almost half of Russia's population found itself below the poverty line.
By 1996, industrial production had decreased by 50%, and agriculture by a third. The loss of gross domestic product amounted to approximately 40%.
By 1999, unemployment in Russia had grown greatly and affected 9 million people.
The presidents of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia signed the Belovezhskaya Agreement on December 8, 1991. This was done in spite of the referendum on the preservation of the USSR, which took place the day before - March 17, 1991. This agreement, according to Yeltsin's opponents, destroyed the USSR and caused bloody conflicts in Chechnya, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh and Tajikistan.
The deployment of troops into Chechnya began on December 11, 1994, after Yeltsin’s decree “On measures to suppress the activities of illegal armed groups on the territory of the Chechen Republic and in the zone of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict.” As a result of the ill-considered actions of Russia's political elite, large casualties occurred among both military and civilians: tens of thousands of people died and hundreds of thousands were injured. Subsequent actions by Chechen militants, aimed at even wider expansion in the North Caucasus, forced Yeltsin to resume hostilities in Chechnya in September 1999, which resulted in a full-scale war.
The protests of citizens on the streets that followed the storming of the Moscow City Hall and the Ostankino television center by Rutsky's supporters on October 3 were brutally suppressed. Troops were brought into Moscow in the early morning of October 4, and 123 people died on both sides (more than 1.5 thousand people - according to the opposition). These events became a black spot in the modern history of Russia.
To introduce the principles of a market economy, economic reforms began in January 1992 with price liberalization. In the country, in just a few days, prices for food and essential goods increased many times over, a huge number of enterprises went bankrupt, and citizens’ deposits in state banks became worthless. A confrontation began between the president and the Congress of People's Deputies, which sought to amend the constitution to limit the rights of the president.
In August 1998, default broke out, a financial crisis caused by the government's inability to meet its debt obligations. The three-fold fall in the ruble exchange rate led to the collapse of numerous small and medium-sized enterprises and the destruction of the emerging middle class. The banking sector was almost completely destroyed. However, the following year the economic situation was stabilized. This was facilitated by an increase in oil prices on world markets, which made it possible to gradually begin payments on external debt. One of the consequences of the crisis was the revival of the activities of domestic industrial enterprises, which replaced on the domestic market products that were previously purchased abroad.
A sharp deterioration in the demographic situation in Russia began in 1992. One of the reasons for the population decline was the government's reduction in social support for the population. The incidence of AIDS has increased 60 times, and infant mortality has doubled.
But still, despite such negative assessments of the rule of this leader, Yeltsin’s memory is immortalized.
On April 23, 2008, a solemn opening ceremony of the monument to Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin took place at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow, and at the same time the Ural State Technical University was named after Boris Yeltsin.
B.N. Yeltsin wrote 3 books:
1990 - “Confession on a given topic”
1994 - “Notes of the President”
2000 - “Presidential Marathon”, became a laureate of the International Literary Award “Capri-90”.
At one time, it was fashionable among Russian officials to engage in one of Yeltsin’s favorite pastimes—playing tennis.
Yeltsin was an Honorary Citizen. Kazan, Yerevan (Armenia), Samara region, Turkmenistan, awarded in 1981 the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Badge of Honor, and two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor.
On November 12, 1991, B.N. Yeltsin was awarded the Medal of Democracy, established in 1982, by the International Association of Political Consultants, had the highest state award of Italy - the Order of the Knight Grand Cross, and was a Knight of the Order of Malta.
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (born 1931 - died 2007), first president of the Russian Federation (elected June 12, 1991), re-elected for a second term in June 1996.
Born on February 1, 1931 in the village of Butka, Talitsky district, Sverdlovsk region, into a peasant family. After graduating from high school, he entered the construction department of the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after. S.M.Kirova (Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg), completed the course in 1955. For almost 13 years he worked in his specialty. He went through all the steps of the service hierarchy in the construction industry: from the foreman of a construction trust to the director of the Sverdlovsk house-building plant.
Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow. I don’t want... to be a brake on the development of national self-awareness in each republic.
(at a meeting with the public of Kazan on August 8, 1990)
Yeltsin Boris Nikolaevich
In 1961 Yeltsin joined the CPSU. He began his party career in 1968 as head of the construction department of the Sverdlovsk regional party committee. Then he was elected secretary (1975-1976) and first secretary (1976-1985) of the regional committee. For a short time he worked as head of the construction department of the Central Committee, then was elected secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1985). In December 1985, Yeltsin became the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU and a candidate member of the Politburo of the Party Central Committee (1986-1988).
In Moscow, Yeltsin took energetic, but often ostentatious and excessively harsh measures to renew the party committees of the capital's districts. In a short time, on his initiative, almost half of the first secretaries of the district party committees were replaced (there were 32 of them in the city). New and not always prepared people appeared in the apparatus of city and district committees, executive committees of councils of people's deputies. The personnel “purge” did not spare a single city government structure. The first secretary of the city committee fought against privileges, often met with people, visited various groups, and found a common language with any audience.
Practically unable to drive a car, he once drove around Moscow behind the wheel of a Moskvich, and also rode on a tram several times. These advertising pictures were shown on television; they increased his personal rating among voters, but did not have any influence on the fight against privileges.
In 1987, his political fate took a sharp turn. At the October plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, Yeltsin made a speech that fell out of the context of the general conversation about the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The speech contained criticism of Politburo member E.K. Ligachev and a demand for more decisive reforms. The plenum condemned this speech as politically erroneous and removed Yeltsin from leadership of the city party committee. The very fact of his performance became widely known. Later, at the 19th party conference, Yeltsin called his speech erroneous and asked the party conference to make a decision on his political rehabilitation.
In 1987-1989, Yeltsin worked as first deputy chairman of the USSR State Committee for Construction with the rank of minister. In the first free elections in March 1989, Yeltsin became a people's deputy of the USSR, and then chairman of the construction committee of the Supreme Council. Along with A.D. Sakharov, G.Kh. Popov and others, he was elected co-chairman of the Interregional Deputy Group (more than 300 people's deputies of the USSR) - the first for many parliamentary opposition.
In 1990, Yeltsin received the mandate of people's deputy of the RSFSR and, despite the resistance of the party apparatus, was elected chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies, on his initiative, adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the RSFSR, which essentially became the first step towards the collapse of the USSR. On March 17, 1991, a referendum was held on the issue of preserving the USSR as a renewed federation of equal and sovereign republics. Russian citizens were also asked a second question: about the establishment of the post of President of Russia. More than 70% of voters voted in favor, and on June 12, 1991, Yeltsin was elected president of the RSFSR.
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, born in 1931 in the outback of the Sverdlovsk region, made a dizzying career, going from a foreman at a construction plant to the first President of the Russian Federation.
His political activities were assessed ambiguously by his contemporaries, but global discussions began when Yeltsin died. It is impossible to give an unambiguous answer to the question about the legality of the decisions he made, but one thing is certain - Boris Nikolayevich led our country along a completely new road that opens up great prospects.
Life after retirement
After seven years as president, Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on his resignation with particular joy. Now he could completely and completely devote his time to his beloved wife Naina, children and grandchildren.
For the first time after his official retirement, Boris Yeltsin participated in the country's public life. Including in the inauguration ceremony of V.V. Putin after the elections in March 2000.
Ministers and politicians often visited Yeltsin's dacha, according to whose testimony Boris Nikolayevich was not always happy with the actions of his successor. But soon these visits ended, and the former president began a quiet life away from politics.
Yeltsin came to the Kremlin several times for award ceremonies. In 2006, he awarded Boris Nikolaevich the Order of Three Stars.
A few months before he died, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin visited Jordan and Israel. Visited the Dead Sea.
Illness and death
According to some doctors, a trip abroad could provoke a deterioration in health. A few days after returning to his native land, Yeltsin was hospitalized in a clinical hospital with an acute viral infection. It was she who caused the failure of some internal organs.
The ex-president spent almost two weeks in the hospital. According to his attending physician, there was no sign of death. However, on April 23, 2007, his heart stopped and Yeltsin died. In 1996, cardiac surgeon R. Achkurin saw the president off and, in his opinion, he should not have refused.
For all relatives, friends and compatriots, April 23, when Boris Yeltsin died, became a day of mourning.
Funeral preparations
In the modern history of Russia, a funeral of a head of state has not yet been held. Yeltsin's burial was the first of its kind. Of course, there were no traditions or rituals. Therefore, when Yeltsin died, Russian President V.V. Putin ordered the development of the appropriate stages of the ceremony.
A funeral organization commission was urgently created, headed by
The funeral was not at all similar to the repose of the top officials of the Soviet state. For the first time, it was decided to hold a funeral service in the main church of the country, since Boris Nikolaevich was a believer.
The funeral service was to be conducted by Metropolitan Yuvenaly with the help of Metropolitans Kirill and Clement. Alexy II, Metropolitan of All Rus', was unable to attend the ceremony because he was undergoing treatment abroad.
A simple oak coffin containing the body of the former president was delivered to the temple on April 24. Every resident of the country could say goodbye to Boris Yeltsin. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior was open all night. The flow of people was not very stormy, but by noon the next day there were those who did not have time to attend the farewell party and pay tribute to the deceased.
On the day of the funeral, April 25, 2007, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was closed for the funeral service of B. N. Yeltsin.
Funeral service
The official farewell ceremony began on April 25 at about one o'clock in the afternoon. It was attended by the highest officials of the state, Yeltsin's associates, his closest friends and relatives, and some artists. This day was declared a day of mourning throughout the country.
It is noteworthy that the State Duma did not stop its work. And deputies of the Communist Party faction refused to honor Yeltsin’s memory with a minute of silence.
Among the foreign political figures present at Yeltsin's farewell were former US Presidents Clinton and Bush Sr., former prime ministers of Great Britain, Canada, Italy, as well as Finland, Bulgaria and many others. It is noteworthy that Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the USSR, arrived at Boris Nikolaevich’s funeral service.
When Yeltsin died, it was decided to hold a farewell ceremony in accordance with Orthodox canons, so the Psalter was read over the coffin all night, then the funeral liturgy and the funeral service itself were performed, which lasted about two hours.
Funeral
After the ceremony at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the coffin with the body of the ex-president was moved to a hearse and taken to the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Yeltsin’s body was taken to the right place along the central alley on a gun carriage while the bells were ringing.
The Russian flag was removed from Boris Yeltsin's closed coffin and handed over to Naina Yeltsin, his wife. The family was allowed to say goodbye to the deceased once again, at which time the women’s choir of the monastery performed “Eternal Memory.”
Yeltsin was buried at 17.00 to the sounds of artillery salvoes and the Russian anthem.
The funeral for the former Russian president took place in the St. George's Hall of the Kremlin. About five hundred people attended them. The only people who made a speech were Vladimir Putin and Yeltsin's wife, Naina Iosifovna.
Memory
When Yeltsin died, the Russian President put forward a proposal to name the St. Petersburg Library after the ex-president.
A street in Yekaterinburg bears the name of Boris Yeltsin.
A year after the funeral, a monument in the form of a Russian flag by G. Frangulyan was solemnly erected at Yeltsin’s grave.
Many monuments and memorial plaques have been opened not only in Russia, but also abroad. For example, in Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan.
A number of documentaries have been filmed about Boris Yeltsin, as well as several feature films, such as “Yeltsin. Three days in August."
In what year did Yeltsin die?
There is a theory put forward by the publicist Yu. Mukhin, according to which the real Yeltsin died in 1996, during heart surgery or due to another heart attack, and the country was ruled by a double.
As evidence, the journalist used photographs taken before and after 1996.
The publication of articles in the Duel newspaper resulted in a great public outcry. The State Duma even put forward a project to check the capacity of the president, but it was not accepted for implementation.
The history of the Soviet Union is known for cases when senior party leaders actually had doubles who went to potentially dangerous events with large crowds of people.
However, the theory of Yeltsin’s doubles did not find any official confirmation, and to the question “In what year did Yeltsin die?” there is only one answer - in 2007.
At 15:45 on Monday April 23, 2007, the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, suddenly died at the Central Clinical Hospital at the age of 77. The Medical Center for the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation stated that the cause of death was the progression of cardiovascular multiple organ failure. To put it simply, Yeltsin died due to sudden cardiac arrest.
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin was born in the village of Butka, Talitsky district, Sverdlovsk region on February 1, 1931. In 1955, he graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute with a degree in civil engineering. Yeltsin joined the CPSU in 1961. His party career developed gradually. His first significant position was the post of head of the construction department at the Sverdlovsk regional party committee, which he took in 1968.
By 1976, Yeltsin was already the head of the entire regional party committee. He continued to follow the construction line, becoming in 1981 the head of the construction department of the CPSU Central Committee. The most that Yeltsin achieved in the party field was the post of Secretary of the Party Central Committee for Construction Issues. At the same time, from December 1985 to November 1987, he held the much more prestigious position of first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU.
On the initiative of the then head of state and party Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin was removed from this post due to ideological differences with the leadership and sent into honorable exile as the first deputy head of the USSR State Construction Committee.
But Yeltsin got a taste for big politics and, not wanting to focus exclusively on economic activities, was elected in March 1989 as a people's deputy of the USSR, and a year later as a people's deputy of the RSFSR. On May 29, 1990, he was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, and in July of the same year, Yeltsin finally broke with communist ideology by leaving the party.
The entire 1990s went down in Russian history as the Yeltsin era. He was first elected President of the Russian Federation on June 12, 1991, and on July 3, 1996, he was re-elected for a second term.
Yeltsin himself ended his political career when he retired early. Moreover, he did this in his usual spectacular manner, announcing the resignation of presidential powers in an unexpected New Year's address to the people at noon on December 31, 1999. According to the constitution, the position of acting head of state in the event of his resignation is occupied by the chairman of the government, who at that time was Vladimir Putin. Three months later, Putin got rid of the “acting” prefix, becoming a full-fledged president of the country following the election results.
Yeltsin's biography as head of state is full of contradictory moments. In 1991, he spoke out against the putschists from the State Emergency Committee, refusing to give him full power after Gorbachev’s return from captivity in Foros. He got the communist Gorbachev, who was still formally the head of the Soviet Union, to ban the activities of the CPSU.
In December 1991, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Yeltsin, together with the heads of Ukraine and Belarus, signed an agreement on the dissolution of the USSR, after which large-scale political and economic reforms began in Russia. With his support, the privatization of state property was carried out in 1992-93, which contributed to the transition of the Russian economy to capitalist lines.
In 1993, the conflict between Yeltsin and the leadership of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation and the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia led to an armed confrontation in the center of Moscow, which ended with the shooting of the parliament building from tanks. A year later, the first military campaign in Chechnya began, leading to numerous casualties, both from the military and civilians.
By the end of the 1990s, the Russian economy was on the rise, which unexpectedly ended with the August 1998 default caused by the collapse of the GKO pyramid. The then head of government, Sergei Kiriyenko, resigned. During the year, Yeltsin replaced two more prime ministers - Yevgeny Primakov and Sergei Stepashin, until in August 1999 he chose Vladimir Putin, whom he introduced to the citizens of the country as his successor.
When Putin became the legally elected head of state, he provided Yeltsin and his family with guarantees of personal security and lifelong security. In the last years of his life, Yeltsin and his relatives lived at a government dacha in Barvikha.
It is known that by the mid-1990s, Yeltsin’s health had deteriorated sharply. Shortly before the 1996 presidential election, he underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, in which an artificial valve is implanted into the heart.
Since then, Yeltsin has been constantly under close medical supervision. Sources close to his family claim that Yeltsin spent about a week in the Central Clinical Hospital before his death.
The burial place of the first president of Russia has not yet been determined. Boris Yeltsin is survived by his wife Naina, two daughters, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.