Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR

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The Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the de-facto leader of the Russian SFSR between 1938 and 1991. The Russian SFSR enjoyed only limited autonomy from the Soviet Union.

• Aleksey Badeyev (1938-1944)
• Nikolay Shvernik (1944-1946)
• Ivan Vlasov (1946-1950)
• Mikhail Tarasov (1950-1959)
• Nikolay Ignatov (1959)
• Nikolay Organov (1959-1962)
• Nikolay Ignatov (1962-1966)
• Mikhail Yasnov (1966-1985)
• Vladimir Orlov (1985-1988)
• Vitaly Vorotnikov (1988-1990)
• Boris Yeltsin (1990-1991)

After 1991 the post was replaced with an elected president of Russia.