How tall is Boris Yeltsin?

Boris Yeltsin's listed height was 187 cm (6'2").

About Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin, whose full name was Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, was a Soviet and Russian politician. He was born on 1 February 1931 in Butka, Ural Oblast, and grew up in Kazan and Berezniki. After studying at the Ural State Technical University he worked in construction, and he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990.

Yeltsin rose through the party ranks and became First Secretary of its Sverdlovsk Oblast committee in 1976. He first supported the perestroika reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev and later called for a transition to a multi-party representative democracy. In 1987 he was the first person to resign from the Politburo. He was elected chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet in 1990, held that post until 1991, and was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1991, the first popularly elected head of state in Russian history. He served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

Yeltsin stood a listed 187 cm (6'2"). He died on 23 April 2007. He was instrumental in the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

Frequently asked

How tall is Boris Yeltsin in feet and inches? Boris Yeltsin was 6'2" tall, which is 187 cm, 73.6 inches or 1.87 m.

Sources

• Boris Yeltsin on Wikipedia — biography and career.
• Boris Yeltsin on Wikidata — nationality and dates; height recorded as 187 cm.
• Boris Yeltsin on TMDB — filmography and co-stars.

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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