Question: Where did the leader of the largest European country in square miles after the collapse of the Soviet Union die?

lake michigan has a surface area of 22,404 sq.mi (58,026 km2); (13,237 square miles, 34,284 km2 lying in michigan state, 7,358 square miles, 19,056 km2 in wisconsin, 234 square miles, 606 km2 in indiana, & 1,576 square miles, 4,079 km2 in illinois) making it the largest lake entirely within one country by surface area (lake baikal, in russia, is larger by water volume), and the fifth-largest lake in the world. it is the larger half of lake michigan–huron, which is the largest body of fresh water in the world by surface area. it is 307 miles (494 km) long by 118 miles (190 km) wide with a shoreline 1,640 miles (2,640 km) long. the lake's average depth is 46 fathoms 3 feet (279 ft; 85 m), while its greatest depth is 153 fathoms 5 feet (923 ft; 281 m). it contains a volume of 1,180 cubic miles (4,918 km³) of water. green bay in the northwest is its largest bay. grand traverse bay in its northeast is another large bay. lake michigan's deepest region, which lies in its northern-half, is called chippewa basin (named after prehistoric lake chippewa) and is separated from south chippewa basin, by a relatively deeper area called the mid lake plateau. <SEP> 12 Romania 238,392 13 Belarus 207,600 14 Kazakhstan * 180,000 (est.) Rank Country Area (km2) Notes Russia * 3,972,400 17,098,242 including North Asia Ukraine 603,628 This includes Crimea France * 551,394 643,801 when the overseas departments are included Spain * 498,468 505,992 when the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla are included Sweden 449,964 6 Norway 385,178 This includes Svalbard and Jan Mayen 7 Germany 357,168 8 Finland 338,145 9 Poland 312,685 10 Italy 301,338 11 United Kingdom 248,532 1,976,102 when the British Overseas Territories are included. 2,724,902 including Asian part 15 Greece 131,940 16 Bulgaria 110,994 17 Iceland 102,775 18 Hungary 93,030 19 Portugal 91,568 20 Austria 83,858 21 Czech Republic 78,866 22 Serbia 77,453 This excludes Kosovo 23 Ireland 70,273 24 Lithuania 65,300 25 Latvia 64,589 26 Croatia 56,594 27 Bosnia and Herzegovina 51,129 28 Slovakia 49,036 29 Estonia 45,339 30 Denmark 44,493 This includes Faroe Islands; 2,210,579 including Greenland 31 Switzerland 41,290 32 Netherlands 41,198 Excluding Caribbean Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. 33 Moldova 33,846 34 Belgium 30,510 35 Albania 28,748 36 Macedonia (Former Yugoslavian Republic) 25,713 37 Turkey * 23,507 783,562 including Asian part 38 Slovenia 20,273 39 Montenegro 13,812 40 Kosovo 10,908 Partially recognized state 41 Cyprus 9,251 42 Azerbaijan * 6,960 86,600 including Asian part 43 Luxembourg 2,586 44 Georgia * 2,428 69,700 including Asian part 45 Andorra 468 46 Malta 316 47 Liechtenstein 160 48 San Marino 61 49 Monaco 1.95 50 Vatican City 0.44 Total 10,141,183 ± 5,000 <SEP> under the 1977 constitution of the union of soviet socialist republics (ussr), the chairman of the council of ministers was the head of government and the chairman of the presidium of the supreme soviet was the head of state. the office of the chairman of the council of ministers was comparable to a prime minister in the first world, whereas the office of the chairman of the presidium was comparable to a president in the first world. in the soviet union's seventy - year history there was no official leader of the soviet union office, but during most of that era there was a de facto top leader who usually led the country through the office of the premier or the office of the general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union (cpsu). in the ideology of vladimir lenin the head of the soviet state was a collegiate body of the vanguard party (see what is to be done? ). <SEP> This ensured that Yeltsin would be the political leader of the Russian successor state following dissolution. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia in June 1991 in the first direct presidential election in Russian history. This situation resulted in political turmoil as the Soviet and Russian leadership wrestled for control, which culminated in the 1991 August Putsch, where the Soviet military attempted to overthrow Gorbachev. Although the coup was ultimately averted, this situation contributed to rising instability in the Soviet Union. By October 1991, as the USSR was on the verge of collapse, Yeltsin announced that Russia would proceed with radical reforms, including market - oriented reform along the lines of Poland's ``big bang '', also known as`` shock therapy''. <SEP> Naina Yeltsina was rarely seen in public. She accompanied her husband on some of his foreign visits, including 1997 visits to Sweden, Finland, and a 1999 visit to China. As a rule, Naina Yeltsina never interfered in her husband's political work. A major public appearance was the state funeral of her late husband in Moscow in April 2007. However, in the 1996 election campaign, she met with voters and gave interviews to the media.