List of heads of state of Russia

This is the list of the heads of state of Russia. For a more detailed, but shorter list (encompassing only the heads of state after the Soviet Union), go to List of presidents of Russia.

#	Name	Term of office		Party
Russian Provisional Government (1917)
1	Georgy Lvov	15 March 1917	21 July 1917	Constitutional Democratic Party
2	Alexander Kerensky ^[1]	21 July 1917	7 November 1917	Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991)
3	Lev Kamenev	7 November 1917	21 November 1917	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks)
4	Yakov Sverdlov	21 November 1917	16 March 1919	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks)/ Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)
5	Mikhail Vladimirsky	16 March 1919	30 March 1919	Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)
—	Vladimir Lenin	30 March 1919	30 December 1922	Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)
6	Mikhail Kalinin	30 December 1922	15 July 1938	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
7	Alexey Badaev	15 July 1938	4 March 1944	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
8	Nikolay Shvernik	4 March 1944	25 June 1946	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
9	Ivan Vlasov	25 June 1946	7 July 1950	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
9	Mikhail Tarasov	7 July 1950	16 April 1959	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)/ Communist Party of the Soviet Union
10	Nikolai Ignatov	16 April 1959	26 November 1959	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
11	Nikolai Organov	26 November 1959	20 December 1962	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
(10)	Nikolai Ignatov	20 December 1962	14 November 1966	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
12	Mikhail Yasnov	14 November 1966	26 March 1985	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
13	Vladimir Orlov	26 March 1985	3 October 1988	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
14	Vitaly Vorotnikov	3 October 1988	29 May 1990	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
15	Boris Yeltsin	29 May 1990	25 December 1991	Independent
Russian Federation (since 1991)
1	Boris Yeltsin	25 December 1991	31 December 1999	Independent
—	Vladimir Putin	31 December 1999	7 May 2000	Unity
2	Vladimir Putin	7 May 2000	7 May 2008	Unity/ Independent
3	Dmitry Medvedev	7 May 2008	7 May 2012	Independent/ United Russia
(2)	Vladimir Putin	7 May 2012	incumbent	United Russia

References

↑ Also Head of the Russian Provisional Government

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