Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
The
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the de-facto leader of the
Russian SFSR between
1938 and
1991. The Russian SFSR enjoyed only limited autonomy from the
Soviet Union.
- Aleksey Badeyev (1938-1944)
- Nikolay Shvernik (1944-1946)
- Ivan Vlasov (1946-1950)
- Mikhail Tarasov (1950-1959)
- Nikolay Ignatov (1959)
- Nikolay Organov (1959-1962)
- Nikolay Ignatov (1962-1966)
- Mikhail Yasnov (1966-1985)
- Vladimir Orlov (1985-1988)
- Vitaly Vorotnikov (1988-1990)
- Boris Yeltsin (1990-1991)
After
1991 the post was replaced with an elected
president of Russia.