Yevgenia Bosch is sometimes considered the first modern woman leader of a national republican government. She was Minister of Interior and the Acting Leader of the People's Secretariat of Ukraine in the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets of 1917–18, one of Lenin's Soviet puppet states that existed on the territory of Ukraine during the Soviet–Ukrainian War. Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, of the mostly unrecognized and now-defunct Tuvan People's Republic, is regarded as "first ever elected woman head of state in the world". She became the chair of the country's presidium in 1940.