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| nationality=not-american | image=Byeltsin.jpg | order=1st President Of The Russian Federation | term_start= July 10 , 1991 | term_end= December 31 , 1999 | predecessor=None (Sworn in as president after Soviet Union Leader Mikhail Gorbachev ) | successor= Vladimir Putin | birth_date= February 1 , 1931 | birth_place=Butka, Sverdlovsk , Soviet Union | dead=alive | death_date= | death_place= | spouse= Naina Yeltsina | party= | vicepresident= }} Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (, 1931 ) was President Of Russia from 1991 to 1999. Early life Boris Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in Butka village, Talitsa district, Sverdlovsk Region . His father, Nikolai Yeltsin, was convicted of anti-Soviet agitation in 1934 and served in a Gulag for three years. After his release he remained unemployed for a while and then worked in construction. His mother, Klavdiya Vasilyevna Yeltsina, worked as a seamstress. Yeltsin studied at Pushkin High School in Berezniki, Perm region. He studied well, and during the whole stay at school he was the class leader (староста, ''starosta''). However, he had problems with discipline. He participated in street fights and he was constantly in conflict with someone: teachers at school, his father. In these conflicts he often came out a winner. Thus, when his 7-year education certificate was revoked, he demanded that a committee be formed to investigate the case and eventually had the certificate restored and the teacher responsible for revocation fired. He passed the 10-year education exams without taking the full course. He was fond of sports: Skiing , Gymnastics , Volleyball , Track And Field , Boxing , Wrestling , despite losing two fingers when he and some of his friends snuck into a Red Army supply depot, stole several grenades, and tried to dissect them with brutal results. Yeltsin received higher education at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk , majoring in Construction , and graduated in 1955. The theme of his degree paper was "Television Tower." In 1955–57 he worked as a foreman at the building trust Uraltyazhtrubstroi. In 1957–63 he worked in Sverdlovsk and he was promoted from construction site superintendent to chief of the Construction Directorate with the Yuzhgorstroi Trust. In 1963 he became chief engineer, and in 1965, head of the Sverdlovsk House-Building Combine. He joined the ranks of CPSU '' Nomenclatura '' in 1968 when he was appointed head of construction with the Sverdlovsk Regional Party Committee. In 1975, he became Secretary of the regional committee in charge of the region's industrial development. CPSU member Member of the Communist Party Of The Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to July 1990, he began working in the Communist administration in 1968. He later commented on his Communist views: "I sincerely believed in the ideals of justice propagated by the party, and just as sincerely joined the party, made a thorough study of the charter, the program and the classics re-reading the works of Lenin , Marx and Engels ." In 1977 as party boss in Sverdlovsk, he ordered the destruction of the Ipatiev House where the last Tsar had been murdered. The Ipatiev House was demolished overnight on the morning of September 18 , 1977 . In addition, during Yeltsin's stay in Sverdlovsk, a CPSU palace was built which was named "White Tooth" by the residents. During the 30 years of his activities as a Communist , Yeltsin developed connections with key people in the Soviet power structure. Appointed to the Politburo |