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.

#	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
style="background:Template:Socialist-Revolutionary Party/meta/color; color:white" |2		Alexander Kerensky	21 July 1917	7 November 1917	Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |3		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" |4	File:YakovSverdlov.jpg	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" |5		Mikhail Vladimirsky	16 March 1919	30 March 1919	Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |6		Mikhail Kalinin	30 March 1919	15 July 1938	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Communist Party of the Russian Federation/meta/color; color:white" |7		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:white" |8	File:NikolayShvernik.jpg	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:white" |9		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" |9		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" |10		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" |11		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" |12	File:Yasnov.JPG	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" |13		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" |14		Vitaly Vorotnikov	3 October 1988	29 May 1990	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
15		Boris Yeltsin	29 May 1990	25 December 1991	Independent
Russian Federation (since 1991)
1		Boris Yeltsin	25 December 1991	31 December 1999	Independent
style="background:Template:Unity (political party, Russia)/meta/color; color:white" |—		Vladimir Putin	31 December 1999	7 May 2000	Unity
style="background:Template:Unity (political party, Russia)/meta/color; color:white" |2			7 May 2000	7 May 2008	Unity/ Independent
style="background:Template:United Russia/meta/color; color:white" |3		Dmitry Medvedev	7 May 2008	7 May 2012	Independent/ United Russia
style="background:Template:United Russia/meta/color; color:white" |(2)		Vladimir Putin	7 May 2012	incumbent	United Russia