Boris Yeltsin

Q: Did Boris Yeltsin receive any awards?

Yeltsin received several awards, including the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and various international honors recognizing his contributions to democracy and reform.

Q: What was Yeltsin's first political role?

Boris Yeltsin's first political role was as the First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party in the 1960s.

Q: What was the impact of Yeltsin's presidency?

Yeltsin's presidency had a profound impact on Russia, as he oversaw the end of the Soviet Union and the introduction of economic reforms, although his tenure was also marked by economic hardship.

Q: What was Yeltsin's relationship with the West?

Yeltsin maintained a complex relationship with the West, often seeking support for his reforms, while also facing criticism for his domestic policies.

Q: What was Boris Yeltsin's net worth?

Boris Yeltsin's estimated net worth was around USD 30 million at the time of his death, reflecting his political career and subsequent activities.

Q: What was a defining moment in Yeltsin's career?

A defining moment in Yeltsin's career was his defiance against the 1991 coup attempt, where he famously stood on a tank to rally support for democracy.

Q: How did Yeltsin's presidency end?

Yeltsin's presidency ended in December 1999, when he unexpectedly announced his resignation, paving the way for Vladimir Putin to succeed him.

Known for

Ordinary Men: The “Forgotten Holocaust” poster

Ordinary Men: The “Forgotten Holocaust” (2022)

IMDb 7.1 / 10

2022 / 58mins

The Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial of 1947/1948 is considered the largest murder trial in history against members of four death squads from the security police...

Name

Boris Yeltsin

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

1 February 1931, Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union

Spouses

Nina Yeltsina (1956–1994)

Children

2 (Yekaterina Yeltsina, Dmitry Yeltsin)

Parents

Mikhail Yeltsin, Maria Yeltsina

Estimated Net Worth

USD 30 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie Connected The film chronicles the final journey of 88-year-old Russian former top-secret scientist and philanthropist Dmitriy Zimin, alongside his longtime American...	self (archive)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2024	Movie Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge Russia, China and Iran: three former empires are determined to take their revenge and reassert their power after centuries of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2024	TV Traitors A documentary series that explores who brought Vladimir Putin to power, and why. It meticulously reconstructs the sequence of events...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2024	TV Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2023	Movie In the Grip of Gazprom The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2023	TV Three Wars	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2022	TV Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2021	Movie Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2021	Movie Крым Юлиана Семёнова	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2021	TV Hullu vuosi 1991 In 1991, the great power the Soviet Union split and ceased to exist. In the same year, Finland's economy plummeted...	Self	Not rated
2019	Movie Citizen K The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	Movie .RU Documentary montage film by Alexander Vartanov, a subjective look at the beginning of the 21st century in Russia	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Putin's Witnesses Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2018	Movie Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2017	TV Код доступа	Self	Not rated
2017	Movie The Man Who Was Too Free A documentary about Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2016	Movie Nemtsov A story told by those who knew Boris Nemtsov at different times: when he was a young scientist and took...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2016	TV Legends of Cinema	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2015	Movie Dokument inifrån: Vad hände med försvaret?	Self - F.d. Rysslands president (Archive footage)	Not rated
2012	TV Tonight	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2011	Movie Khodorkovsky Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	Movie The Shock Doctrine An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2008	Movie Георгий Вицин. Отшельник	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2007	TV The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie Baltic Storm A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2000	Movie Biography: Boris Yeltsin He has been called both a democrat and a drunk, a dictator and a czar. For most of a decade,...	Self	Not rated
1999	TV Faith of the Century: A History of Communism Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1999	Movie Elvis Gratton 2: Miracle à Memphis Elvis Gratton, dead for three days, comes back to life.	(Archive Footage)	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1999	TV President of All Russia The four—part documentary about the first president of Russia is an attempt to understand the controversial personality of Boris Yeltsin...	Unknown character	Not rated
1996	Movie Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1993	Movie Day in the President's Family Eldar Ryazanov in conversation with Boris Yeltsin.	Self	Not rated
1993	Movie Salam Aleikum, Ingush people! Documentary film about ethnic cleansing in the Prigorodny district in October-November 1992.	as Self	Not rated
1991	Movie Latest News About Doomsday A crazy documentary about the dawn of occult movements related to the expectation of the end of the world, after...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1991	TV The Second Russian Revolution The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika.	Self	Not rated
1991	Movie An Example of Intonation The second film by Sokurov featuring Boris Yeltsin as the principal character. Now he is the President of Russia, invested...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1989	Movie Soviet Elegy In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1989	Movie Day of Revelation About the leaders and the nature of the activities of informal groups in Moscow: “Democratic Union” and “People’s Front”.	Unknown character	Not rated
1983	TV Frontline Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1975	TV Apostrophes Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran...	Self	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1948	TV Bambi The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10

Connected

2025 / TMDB 7.3

Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge

2024 / TMDB 6.7

In the Grip of Gazprom

2023 / TMDB 8.0

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

2021 / TMDB 7.7

Крым Юлиана Семёнова

2021

Citizen K

2019 / TMDB 6.7

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