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Acting

Known Credits

32

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-02-01

Day of Death

2007-04-23 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Butka, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Also Known As

Boris Nikolajewitsch Jelzin

Boris Nikolaevič El'cin

Boris Eltsine

Boris Ieltsine

Boris Yeltsin

Biography

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian 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. Yeltsin was born in Butka, Ural Oblast. He grew up in Kazan and Berezniki. After studying at the Ural State Technical University, he worked in construction. After joining the Communist Party, he rose through its ranks, and in 1976 he became First Secretary of the party's Sverdlovsk Oblast committee. Yeltsin was initially a supporter of the perestroika reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He later criticized the reforms as being too moderate, and called for a transition to a multi-party representative democracy. In 1987 he was the first person to resign from the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which established his popularity as an anti-establishment figure. In 1990, he was elected chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet and in 1991 was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), becoming the first popularly-elected head of state in Russian history. Yeltsin allied with various non-Russian nationalist leaders, and was instrumental in the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in December of that year. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the RSFSR became the Russian Federation, an independent state. Through that transition, Yeltsin remained in office as president. He was later reelected in the 1996 election, which was claimed by critics to be pervasively corrupt. Yeltsin transformed Russia's command economy into a capitalist market economy by implementing economic shock therapy, market exchange rate of the ruble, nationwide privatization, and lifting of price controls. Economic downturn, volatility and inflation ensued. Amid the economic shift, a small number of oligarchs obtained a majority of the national property and wealth, while international monopolies came to dominate the market. A constitutional crisis emerged in 1993 after Yeltsin ordered the unconstitutional dissolution of the Russian parliament, leading parliament to impeach him. The crisis ended after troops loyal to Yeltsin stormed the parliament building and stopped an armed uprising; he then introduced a new constitution which significantly expanded the powers of the president. Secessionist sentiment in the Russian Caucasus led to the First Chechen War, War of Dagestan, and Second Chechen War between 1994 and 1999. Internationally, Yeltsin promoted renewed collaboration with Europe and signed arms control agreements with the United States. Amid growing internal pressure, he resigned by the end of 1999 and was succeeded as president by his chosen successor, Vladimir Putin, whom he had appointed prime minister a few months earlier. He kept a low profile after leaving office and was accorded a state funeral upon his death in 2007. ... Source: Article "Boris Yeltsin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Acting

In the Grip of Gazprom

2023

In the Grip of Gazprom

as

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Крым Юлиана Семёнова

2021

Крым Юлиана Семёнова

as

Self (archive footage)

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

2021

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

as

Self (archive footage)

.RU

2018

.RU

as

Self (archive footage)

Soviet Elegy

1989

Soviet Elegy

as

Self

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

1996

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

as

Self (archive footage)

Baltic Storm

2003

Baltic Storm

as

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mr. Landsbergis

2021

Mr. Landsbergis

as

Self (archive footage)

Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge

2024

Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge

as

Self (archive footage)

Nemtsov

2016

Nemtsov

as

Self (archive footage)

Khodorkovsky

2011

Khodorkovsky

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Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Man Who Was Too Free

2017

The Man Who Was Too Free

as

Self (archive footage)

Putin's Witnesses

2018

Putin's Witnesses

as

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Citizen K

2019

Citizen K

as

Self (archive footage)

The Shock Doctrine

2009

The Shock Doctrine

as

Self (archive footage)

Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship

2018

Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship

as

Self (archive footage)

Tonight

Tonight

as

Self (archive footage)

Frontline

Frontline

as

Self (archive footage)

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

as

Self (archive footage)

Traitors

Traitors

as

Self (archive footage)

Three Wars

Three Wars

as

Self (archive footage)

Production

Crew

Directing