Portraits of Soviet and Russian Political Leaders

A Bit of History

Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev
Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko

Modern Politicians

Prominent modern Russian politicians are listed below in the alphabetical order. Click on the links to access the pictures.

Sergei Baburin
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Boris Fedorov
Svyatoslav Fedorov
Yegor Gaidar
Mikhail Gorbachev
Alexander Lebed
Yuri Luzhkov
Ivan Rybkin
Grigory Yavlinsky
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Gennady Zyuganov

About The Pictures

Most pictures are from Ogonek. The pictures of Yeltsin and Gorbachev are discovered on the Web, and I have no idea where these two images initially came from. The photo of Zhirinovsky was shot by Jay Colton, Time.

Badges and Update Info

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This page was created in early December, 1995. Last update: March 2, 1996.

This page is maintained by Dmitri Gusev. My e-mail address is

dmiguse@cs.indiana.edu