List of leaders of the Russian SFSR

This is a list of leaders of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from 1917 to 1991.

Heads of government

Name	Term start	Term end
Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR (1917–1946)
Vladimir Lenin	9 November 1917	21 January 1924
Alexey Rykov	2 February 1924	18 May 1929
Sergei Syrtsov	18 May 1929	3 November 1930
Daniil Sulimov	3 November 1930	22 July 1937
Nikolai Bulganin	22 July 1937	17 September 1938
Vasiliy Vakhrushev	29 July 1939	2 June 1940
Ivan Khokhlov	2 June 1940	23 June 1943
Alexei Kosygin	23 June 1943	23 March 1946
Chairmen of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (1946–1978)
Mikhail Rodionov	23 March 1946	9 March 1949
Boris Chernousov	9 March 1949	20 October 1952
Alexander Puzanov	20 October 1952	24 January 1956
Mikhail Yasnov	24 January 1956	19 December 1957
Frol Kozlov	19 December 1957	31 March 1958
Dmitry Polyansky	31 March 1958	23 November 1962
Gennady Voronov	23 November 1962	23 July 1971
Mikhail Solomentsev	28 July 1971	12 April 1978
Chairmen of the Council of Ministers — Government of the Russian SFSR (1978–1991)
Mikhail Solomentsev	12 April 1978	24 June 1983
Vitaly Vorotnikov	24 June 1983	3 October 1988
Alexander Vlasov	3 October 1988	15 June 1990
Ivan Silayev	15 June 1990	26 September 1991
Oleg Lobov	26 September 1991	6 November 1991
Boris Yeltsin	6 November 1991	26 December 1991

Name	Term start	Term end
Chairman Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSFSR (1956–1966)
Nikita Khrushchev	27 February 1956	16 November 1964
Leonid Brezhnev	16 November 1964	8 April 1966
Chairman of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1989–1990)
Mikhail Gorbachev	9 December 1989	19 June 1990
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR (1990–1991)
Ivan Polozkov	23 June 1990	6 August 1991
Valentin Kuptsov	6 August 1991	23 August 1991

Name	Term start	Term end
Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets (1917–1938)
Lev Kamenev	9 November 1917	21 November 1917
Yakov Sverdlov	21 November 1917	16 March 1919
Mikhail Vladimirsky	16 March 1919	30 March 1919
Mikhail Kalinin	30 December 1922	15 July 1938
Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1938–1990)
Alexey Badaev	19 July 1938	4 March 1944
Ivan Vlasov	9 April 1943	4 March 1944
Nikolai Shvernik	4 March 1944	25 June 1946
Ivan Vlasov	25 June 1946	7 July 1950
Mikhail Tarasov	7 July 1950	16 April 1959
Nikolai Ignatov	16 April 1959	26 November 1959
Nikolai Organov	26 November 1959	20 December 1962
Nikolai Ignatov	20 December 1962	14 November 1966
Mikhail Yasnov	23 December 1966	26 March 1985
Vladimir Orlov	26 March 1985	3 October 1988
Vitaly Vorotnikov	3 October 1988	29 May 1990
President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1990–1991)
Boris Yeltsin	29 May 1990	10 July 1991

People from Russia

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