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Boris Yeltsin

Boris YeltsinAKA Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

Born: 1-Feb-1931
Birthplace: Butka, Sverdlovsk, USSR
Died: 23-Apr-2007
Location of death: Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: Heart Failure

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Head of State

Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: First president of post-Soviet Russia

Father: Nikolai Yeltsin
Mother: Klavdiya Vasilyevna
Wife: Naina Iosifovna Girina (m. 1956)
Daughter: Yelena (b. 1957)
Daughter: Tatyana (b. 1959)

    High School: Pushkin High School, Berezniki, Perm, Russia
    University: Ural Polytechnic Institute, Sverdlovsk, Russia (1955)

    President of Russia 10-Jul-1991 to 31-Dec-1999
    Prime Minister of Russia 6-Nov-1991 to 15-Jun-1992
    Member of the Soviet Politburo
    Heart Bypass Operation (quadruple) 5-Nov-1996
    Suicide Attempt twice, according to former bodyguard Alexander Korzhakov
    Granted Immunity Dec-1999
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Amputee

Author of books:
Midnight Diaries (2000, memoir)



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