Russia

Vladimir Lenin - Father of the Soviet Union

Leaders of Soviet Russia (1917–1991)

Vladimir Lenin (November 8, 1917 — January 21, 1924)



Alexei Rykov (February 2, 1924 - 19 December, 1930)


Vyacheslav Molotov (December 19, 1930 - May 6, 1941)


Joseph Stalin (May 6, 1941 — March 5, 1953)


Georgy Malenkov (March 5, 1953 — September 7, 1953)


Nikolai Bulganin ( September 7, 1953 - March 27, 1958)


Nikita Khrushchev (March 27, 1958 — October 14, 1964)


Leonid Brezhnev (October 14, 1964 — November 10, 1982)


Yuri Andropov (November 12, 1982 — February 9, 1984)


Konstantin Chernenko (February 13, 1984 — March 10, 1985


Mikhail Gorbachev (March 11, 1985 — December 25, 1991)


Presidents of Russia (1991–present)

Boris Yeltsin (July 10, 1991 — December 31, 1999)

Vladimir Putin (May 7, 2000 — May 7, 2008)
Dmitry Medvedev (May 7, 2008 — May 7, 2012)
Vladimir Putin (May 7, 2012 – Present)