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YELTSIN, Boris Nikolayevich

Born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) and trained as a construction engineer, he became a full-time Communist party worker in 1968 and first secretary of the Sverdlovsk region in 1976. Yeltsin was brought to Moscow by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, whose political and economic reforms he embraced, and was installed as first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee in 1985. He quickly alienated party reactionaries and, with Gorbachevs acquiescence, was stripped of his post in 1987. In the March 1989 elections for the Congress of Peoples Deputies, however, he won overwhelmingly in the Moscow constituency. The following year he was elected to the congress of the Russian SFSR, which designated him chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR. Under his leadership, the congress declared Russia to be a sovereign republic in June 1990. Yeltsin quit the Communist party the following month.

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