# List of leaders of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The following is a list of Presidents of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). It lists heads of state, heads of government, and heads of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Commonly referred to as Soviet Russia or simply Russia, the Russian SFSR was a sovereign state in 1917–1922, the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922–1991, having its own legislation within the Union in 1990–91.

## List of presidents

| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Political party |
| Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets (1917–1938) ||||||
| 1 | | Lev Kamenev (1883–1936) | 9 November 1917 | 21 November 1917 | Communist Party |
| 2 | | Yakov Sverdlov (1885–1919) | 21 November 1917 | 16 March 1919 | Communist Party |
| — | | Mikhail Vladimirsky (1874–1951) Acting | 16 March 1919 | 30 March 1919 | Communist Party |
| 5 | | Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) | 30 March 1919 | 15 July 1938 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1938) ||||||
| 6 | | Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948) | 15 July 1938 | 19 July 1938 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1938–1990) ||||||
| 7 | | Aleksei Badayev (1883–1951) | 19 July 1938 | 9 April 1943 | Communist Party |
| — | | Ivan Vlasov (1903–1969) Acting | 9 April 1943 | 4 March 1944 | Communist Party |
| 8 | | Nikolai Shvernik (1888–1970) | 4 March 1944 | 25 June 1946 | Communist Party |
| 9 | | Ivan Vlasov (1903–1969) | 25 June 1946 | 7 July 1950 | Communist Party |
| 10 | | Mikhail Tarasov (1899–1970) | 7 July 1950 | 16 April 1959 | Communist Party |
| 11 | | Nikolai Ignatov (1901–1966) | 16 April 1959 | 26 November 1959 | Communist Party |
| 12 | | Nikolai Organov (1901–1982) | 26 November 1959 | 20 December 1962 | Communist Party |
| (11) | | Nikolai Ignatov (1901–1966) | 20 December 1962 | 14 November 1966 | Communist Party |
| 13 | | Mikhail Yasnov (1906–1991) | 23 December 1966 | 26 March 1985 | Communist Party |
| 14 | | Vladimir Orlov (1921–1999) | 26 March 1985 | 3 October 1988 | Communist Party |
| 15 | | Vitaly Vorotnikov (1926–2012) | 3 October 1988 | 29 May 1990 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1990–1991) ||||||
| 16 | | Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) | 29 May 1990 | 10 July 1991 | Independent |
| President of the Russian SFSR (1991) ||||||
| (16) | | Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) | 10 July 1991 | 25 December 1991 | Independent |

## Heads of government

| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of Office | Term of Office | Political Party |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took Office | Left Office | Political Party |
| Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR (1917–1946) ||||||
| 1 | | Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) | 8 November 1917 | 21 January 1924 | Communist Party |
| 2 | | Alexei Rykov (1881–1938) | 2 February 1924 | 18 May 1929 | Communist Party |
| 3 | | Sergei Syrtsov (1893–1937) | 18 May 1929 | 3 November 1930 | Communist Party |
| 4 | | Daniil Sulimov (1890–1937) | 3 November 1930 | 22 July 1937 | Communist Party |
| 5 | | Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975) | 22 July 1937 | 17 September 1938 | Communist Party |
| 6 | | Vasily Vakhrushev (1902–1947) | 29 July 1939 | 2 June 1940 | Communist Party |
| 7 | | Ivan Khokhlov (1895–1973) | 2 June 1940 | 23 June 1943 | Communist Party |
| 8 | | Alexei Kosygin (1904–1980) | 23 June 1943 | 23 March 1946 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (1946–1991) ||||||
| 9 | | Mikhail Rodionov (1907–1950) | 23 March 1946 | 9 March 1949 | Communist Party |
| 10 | | Boris Chernousov (1908–1978) | 9 March 1949 | 20 October 1952 | Communist Party |
| 11 | | Alexander Puzanov (1906–1998) | 20 October 1952 | 24 January 1956 | Communist Party |
| 12 | | Mikhail Yasnov (1906–1991) | 24 January 1956 | 19 December 1957 | Communist Party |
| 13 | | Frol Kozlov (1908–1965) | 19 December 1957 | 31 March 1958 | Communist Party |
| 14 | | Dmitry Polyansky (1917–2001) | 31 March 1958 | 23 November 1962 | Communist Party |
| 15 | | Gennady Voronov (1910–1994) | 23 November 1962 | 23 July 1971 | Communist Party |
| 16 | | Mikhail Solomentsev (1913–2008) | 28 July 1971 | 24 June 1983 | Communist Party |
| 17 | | Vitaly Vorotnikov (1926–2012) | 24 June 1983 | 3 October 1988 | Communist Party |
| 18 | | Aleksandr Vlasov (1932–2002) | 3 October 1988 | 15 June 1990 | Communist Party |
| 19 | | Ivan Silayev (1930–2023) | 18 June 1990 | 26 September 1991 | Communist Party |
| — | | Oleg Lobov (1937–2018) Acting | 26 September 1991 | 15 November 1991 | Communist Party |
| President of the Russian SFSR as extraordinary head of the Government (1991) ||||||
| — | | Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) | 6 November 1991 | 25 December 1991 | Independent |

## Heads of party

| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of Office | Term of Office | Political Party |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took Office | Left Office | Political Party |
| Chairman of the Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee for the RSFSR (1956–1966) ||||||
| 1 | | Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) | 27 February 1956 | 16 November 1964 | Communist Party |
| 2 | | Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) | 16 November 1964 | 8 April 1966 | Communist Party |
| Chairman of the Russian Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee (1989–1990) ||||||
| 3 | | Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) | 9 December 1989 | 16 June 1990 | Communist Party |
| On June 16, 1990, the provision on the monopoly of the CPSU on power was excluded from Article 6 of the Constitution of the RSFSR |