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. For leaders prior to 1917, see List of Russian rulers.

After the February Revolution, the monarchy in Russia was abolished. De facto Russia was headed by the chairman of the Provisional Government.

After the October Revolution, the RSFSR was formed. Formally, the head of state was the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, but de facto the country was headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Lenin.

In 1922, the RSFSR became part of the USSR. Until 1938, the head of the Russian Central Executive Committee remained the head of the republic. In 1938, the Supreme Council of the RSFSR was formed.

#	Picture	Name	Term of office		Party
Russian Provisional Government (1917)
style="background:Template:Constitutional Democratic Party/meta/color; color:white" |1		Georgy Lvov	15 March 1917	21 July 1917	Constitutional Democratic Party
2		Alexander Kerensky	21 July 1917	7 November 1917	Socialist-Revolutionary Party (Trudovik faction)
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1922)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |1		Lev Kamenev	7 November 1917	21 November 1917	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |2		Yakov Sverdlov	21 November 1917	16 March 1919	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks)/ Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |—		Mikhail Vladimirsky	16 March 1919	30 March 1919	Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)
rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |3		Mikhail Kalinin	30 March 1919	December 30, 1922	Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)
RSFSR as part of the Soviet Union (1922–1991)
	Mikhail Kalinin	December 30, 1922	15 July 1938	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |4		Aleksei Badayev	15 July 1938	4 March 1944	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:black" |5		Nikolay Shvernik	4 March 1944	25 June 1946	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:red" |6		Ivan Vlasov	25 June 1946	7 July 1950	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |7		Mikhail Tarasov	7 July 1950	16 April 1959	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)/ Communist Party of the Soviet Union
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |8		Nikolai Ignatov	16 April 1959	26 November 1959	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |9		Nikolai Organov	26 November 1959	20 December 1962	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |10		Nikolai Ignatov	20 December 1962	14 November 1966	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |11		Mikhail Yasnov	14 November 1966	26 March 1985	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |12		Vladimir Orlov	26 March 1985	3 October 1988	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |13		Vitaly Vorotnikov	3 October 1988	29 May 1990	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
13		Boris Yeltsin	29 May 1990	25 December 1991	Independent
Russian Federation (since 1991)
1		Boris Yeltsin	25 December 1991	31 December 1999	Independent
— 2		Vladimir Putin	31 December 1999	7 May 2000	Independent
			7 May 2000	7 May 2008
style="background:Template:United Russia/meta/color; color:white" |3	File:Dmitry Medvedev 2016.jpg	Dmitry Medvedev	7 May 2008	7 May 2012	United Russia
style="background:Template:United Russia/meta/color; color:white" |4		Vladimir Putin	7 May 2012	incumbent	United Russia/ Independent