Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin is a very famous, bright and extraordinary person, whose behavior certainly caused laughter or admiration.
Boris Nikolaevich was the first President of the Russian Federation who carried out tough reforms during the collapse of the USSR.
Many people still hate him for this, considering him responsible for the crisis, the hungry and crazy nineties. The rest give a standing ovation because they understand that it was impossible to do otherwise at that moment. One way or another, there are no and will not be indifferent to this person.
Height, weight, age. Years of life of Boris Yeltsin
The people of the Russian Federation had the right to know what their beloved President’s height, weight, and age were. The years of Boris Yeltsin’s life are also known to every person in the world, since they are included in the course of Russian history.
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin was born in 1931, so at the time of his death in 2007, he was seventy-six years old. According to his zodiac sign, he belongs to the fickle, creative, intelligent and creative jokester Aquarius.
According to the Eastern horoscope, Yeltsin received all the character traits inherent in Goats, including complaisance, wisdom, modesty, artistry, and instability.
The nationality of Boris Nikolaevich is in doubt, since his grandfather is considered a Jew. However, when the family moved to the Urals, there were no Jews in the information about the settlers; Boris was written everywhere as Russian.
The height of the famous politician was one meter and eighty-seven centimeters, and his weight reached ninety-six kilograms.
Biography of Boris Yeltsin. First President of Russia
The biography of Boris Yeltsin began from the moment he was born in 1931 in the distant and cold Urals in the small village of Butka.
As a child, Borka received an injury due to which he lost two fingers on his hand. A German grenade exploded in his hands, depriving him of the opportunity to serve in the Soviet army.
The boy was a leader and an activist; he not only studied well, but was also a prefect. The boy was not afraid to defend his point of view and even rebelled against his teacher, who beat schoolchildren and demanded that they work in her garden. Because of this incident, seventh-grader Boris was expelled from school with a wolf ticket, however, he did not give up. The guy went to the city committee of the Komsomol and did everything to be acquitted.
After graduating from high school, Borya went to enter the Ural Polytechnic. He played on the volleyball team of the institute and the Yekaterinburg national team, and even passed the standards for Master of Sports in this sport.
Boris worked at Uraltyazhtrubstroy as an ordinary worker, although he could well have become the head of some enterprise. Yeltsin worked as a mason and concrete worker, carpenter and joiner, plasterer and glazier, crane operator and painter.
Two years later, Boris already became a foreman, and in the sixties he became the head of a house-building plant in the city of Sverdlovsk. He was an active participant in the Communist Party of the city of Sverdlovsk, and in 1975 he became secretary of the regional branch of the CPSU.
He brought ideal order to the region and opened new jobs, so he became the first secretary of the Moscow State Committee of the CPSU. In 1989, the politician became a deputy from the Moscow district, and already in 1991, during a coup d'etat, he became the first President of Russia.
Yeltsin's reign lasted for eight years and six days, and at the end of his term, he handed over the reins to Vladimir Putin at the end of 1999. He clarified that he was not ready to continue governing the state for health reasons, as he had to undergo heart surgery.
It is worth noting that Boris Nikolaevich’s drunkenness was a big problem and attracted the attention of politicians and ordinary people. When Yeltsin became President, he often behaved inappropriately under the influence of alcohol, for example, conducting a military orchestra in 1994, when Russian troops were withdrawing from Germany. Boris Nikolaevich and his relatives claimed that alcohol helps him relieve stress.
The Boris Yeltsin Museum appeared after his death in Yekaterinburg; it contains various exhibitions that related to his life. The President's daughter, son-in-law and wife filled these halls.
Personal life of Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin's personal life was crystal clear, he married early and lived his entire life with his beloved and only woman. Many people admired the tender and sincere relationship of this beautiful couple.
It is known that Boris Yeltsin’s birthplace is the distant village of Butka, and the guy studied in Sverdlovsk. There he met his first love and his wife, who bore him two daughters.
Recently it turned out that the man is not as simple as he seems. Boris Nikolaevich dated Elena Stepanova for a long time, from whom he allegedly had an illegitimate son, Stepan. Russians learned about this only after the death of the President of Russia; by the way, the boy’s relatives do not recognize him.
Boris and Elena met at his friend’s dacha, where the girl worked as a housewife. Stepan graduated from the firefighting college of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.
Boris Yeltsin's family
Boris Yeltsin's family was unusual, since the boy's father was repressed as an enemy of the people and a kulak.
Father: Nikolai Yeltsin- was exiled to Volga-Don, and then returned to his native village. Nicholas returned because he had been amnestied but not rehabilitated. All his life he worked as a builder and even rose to the rank of head of a construction plant.
Mother - Klavdia Vasilievna– raised children and worked as a dressmaker, she also sewed at home illegally.
Brother: Mikhail Yeltsin– born in 1937, he was a builder and worked in an advanced construction team, retiring early. In recent years he was very ill, was married three times, but had no children. Yeltsin's brother died in 2009.
Children of Boris Yeltsin
The children of Boris Yeltsin are already accustomed to living in the shadow of their famous father; they are self-sufficient and settled in life. Boris Nikolaevich has two beautiful daughters, each of whom successfully married and gave their father grandchildren.
Yeltsin was a happy grandfather, as he had seven grandchildren. The youngest daughter gave Yeltsin Boris Jr., Gleb, Maria, and also an adopted granddaughter, Polinka.
The eldest girl made her famous father happy with her granddaughters Ekaterina and Maria and grandson Ivan.
All grandchildren received an excellent education, graduating from prestigious higher educational institutions. Yeltsin has three great-grandsons.
Boris Nikolaevich’s special joy and pain is his grandson Gleb. The boy was born not an ordinary child, but a sunny child in 1995. However, Down syndrome did not prevent the guy from becoming famous and successful. Now Gleb Dyachenko is the European champion in swimming for people with intellectual disabilities, he plays chess well and loves to read.
Daughter of Boris Yeltsin - Elena Yeltsina
Boris Yeltsin’s daughter, Elena Yeltsin, was born in 1956; according to family legend, the father wanted a son and was not at all happy, but cried when his daughter was born. The girl received an excellent education.
Her husband was Valery Okulov, who served as Deputy Minister of Transport. For a long time, Valery worked as director of Aeroflot, and also as general manager. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Civil Aviation, had a great understanding of airplanes and could be a navigator.
In the marriage, the couple had three children who achieved everything on their own. Elena almost never appears at parties of various kinds; her face cannot be found on the Internet. She is far from being involved in politics.
Daughter of Boris Yeltsin - Tatyana Yeltsina
Boris Yeltsin's daughter, Tatyana Yeltsin, was born in 1960, although her father was again expecting a boy. The girl studied well at school and graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics of Moscow State University.
She worked in a design bureau and a branch of the Zarya Ural bank, and for four years she was an Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, that is, to her father. Tatyana is a member of the Board of Directors of ORT.
In recent years, he has been the head of the Yeltsin Foundation, and also maintains his own blog on LiveJournal.
She was married three times and has four children. She was at the center of major financial scandals several times, but came out unscathed.
Boris Yeltsin's wife - Naina Yeltsina
Boris Yeltsin's wife, Naina Yeltsina, received the name Tatyana at birth. She appeared in the life of Boris Nikolaevich when he was still studying at the Polytechnic Institute. The girl was modest and friendly, so Boris liked her. The guy immediately fell in love with Naina, however, he didn’t show it.
As soon as Yeltsin graduated from the educational institution, the couple entered into a legal marriage. Naina Iosifovna worked at the Vodokanal design bureau, where she was the project manager.
Naina Yeltsina gave birth to two daughters; she is a caring grandmother and great-grandmother.
Funeral and cause of death of Boris Yeltsin
The funeral and cause of death of Boris Yeltsin took place in 2007. The fact was that the politician suffered from diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Boris Nikolayevich’s health was undermined by alcoholism and a viral infection, which he suffered in 2007. Doctors claimed that nothing threatened the politician, however, he died.
On April 23, 2007, Boris Yeltsin’s heart stopped, and the cause of death was stated to be a dysfunction of almost all internal organs.
The funeral took place at the Novodevichy Cemetery and was broadcast live. There is a monument on the grave that looks like a boulder, painted in red, blue and white.
Instagram and Wikipedia Boris Yeltsin
Instagram and Wikipedia of Boris Yeltsin are available, but only half. An official Wikipedia page is dedicated to Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. It contains all the most reliable facts about the politician’s family and personal life, children and parents. Particular attention is paid to career growth and political life, as well as how he ended up as President of Russia.
Boris Nikolaevich never had an official Instagram page. However, there are pages on the Internet dedicated to his life and political views.
At birth, Naina Iosifovna was recorded as Anastasia, but everyone called her Naya or Naina. When she already started working, everyone began to call her by her first name and patronymic. At the age of 25, she officially changed her name to Naina at the passport office because she could not get used to the official address in the service “Anastasia Iosifovna”.
Naina Iosifovna in her youth. (pinterest.com)
She married Boris Yeltsin, her classmate, in 1956. It is interesting that Anastasia’s parents were against her marriage to builder Boris Yeltsin, but supported her relationship with the future space explorer Yuri Gagarin, whom she dated for several months.
Students of the Ural Polytechnic Boris Yeltsin and Naina Girina, 1954. (pinterest.com)
Naina Iosifovna with her daughters Tatyana and Elena, 1960s. (pinterest.com)
The Yeltsin family in the 1960s. (pinterest.com)
The Yeltsin family in the 1990s. (pinterest.com)
Boris Yeltsin about his wife: “She always shunned publicity. People feel these traits of her character - modesty, tact, humanity - from those few and very laconic interviews that she gave to television, from those rare appearances in public when she accompanied me. They feel it and are drawn to it.”
Mikhail Poltoranin argued that Yeltsin’s wife influenced personnel policy in the country’s leadership.
Yeltsins and Vladimir Putin. (pinterest.com)
Boris Yeltsin: “When Naina goes to an orphanage, or to a children’s hospital, or to the hospital to see her favorite actress, she never tells anyone about it. She sincerely considers charity and good deeds to be her private matter.”
On March 14, 1932, Anastasia Girina, who was destined to become the first lady of the Russian Federation, was born in the village of Titovka, Orenburg Region. Naina Iosifovna’s biography included the Second World War, the formation of a new Russia, and the death of loved ones.
Childhood and youth
For a couple of namesakes Joseph and Maria Girin, Nastya became the first-born. The father was sure that his eldest daughter would become a teacher - Anastasia Iosifovna. Since it would be difficult for the students to pronounce such a name and patronymic, the father called his daughter Naya, Naina. Naina Yeltsina is Russian by nationality. Naya helped her mother raise her younger brothers and sister Rosa.
Eighteen-year-old Naya went to Sverdlovsk to enroll in the construction department of the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after. . Here the freshman met her tall, athletic future husband. Romantic feelings flared up in her second year, but the girl did not immediately become Yeltsin.
The future president was jokingly interested in Naya's other fans and suggested getting married, but things didn't go beyond words.
Personal life
Boris and Naina did not see each other for a year, since after graduating from university in 1955, both worked as assigned. Boris worked in Sverdlovsk, Naina - in the Orenburg region. At that time, the lovers exchanged touching letters.
The young people met in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara), from where a mutual acquaintance sent Naina a comic telegram, which reported on the critical condition of Boris’s heart. The frightened girl asked to leave work, the telegram turned out to be a reason to meet. That evening Boris and Naina decided not to part.
In the summer of 1956, Boris asked Naina's hand from the girl's parents, and in September the couple got married. A hundred people came to the celebration in Upper Iset. The young family settled in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Elena was born in 1957, and their second daughter Tatyana was born in 1960. The children followed in the footsteps of their parents, receiving a technical education.
She worked as an engineer at the Soyuzvodokanalproekt Institute, where filtering and treatment plants were developed, for more than twenty-five years. Anastasia was not used to being formally addressed by name and patronymic in the service and, at the suggestion of her friends, changed her name to “Naina” in an official manner.
At this time, Boris Yeltsin was rapidly climbing the career ladder, first at a house-building plant, then elected to administrative positions in the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU.
In 1985, Boris Nikolaevich became the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party, and the family moved. In the capital, Naina Yeltsin did not pursue a career, providing a strong rear for her husband at home. Finally, in the summer of 1991, Boris Nikolaevich was elected president of the RSFSR, and then the Russian Federation. Thus, Naina acquired the status of “first lady”.
First lady
The wife of the first Russian president traveled to schools, orphanages and hospitals, providing charitable assistance. According to protocol, the first lady accompanies her husband on official visits abroad. In 1999, the Frank Foundation for International Child Aid awarded Yeltsin the Oliver Prize in the category “For Humanism of the Heart.”
The president's wife rarely gave interviews in the 90s, remaining in the shadow of Boris Nikolaevich. Naina took Yeltsin’s lies, intrigues and accusations of the worsening economic situation seriously. In the family circle there was a rule not to discuss politics.
On December 31, 1999, the head of state congratulated the people on the holiday for the last time. The resignation made Naina Yeltsin happy, because it meant the end of a restless, hectic life that affected the health of her beloved husband.
In 2000, the former president became a pensioner. At this time, the married couple often traveled to visit guests, meeting with the families of ex-heads of state, with whom they managed to become friends. Naina Yeltsina maintains contact with Madame Chirac, for example, to this day.
In 2006, the wife of the former president was awarded the national Olympia Prize in the “Honor and Dignity” category.
Death of Boris Yeltsin
On April 23, 2007, Naina Iosifovna became a widow. Boris Nikolaevich died at the age of 77 due to cardiac arrest. The funeral took place at the Novodevichy cemetery. The heads of foreign states also came to say goodbye to their comrade. They lived together for a little over fifty years.
Naina Yeltsina now
In May of the same year, Yeltsin's successor Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a monthly pension for Naina Yeltsina, which amounted to 195 thousand rubles per month. In 2008, the former first lady joined the board of trustees of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center. Today, the widow of the ex-president is participating in events dedicated to the memory of her husband.
In the fall of 2015, the Yeltsin Presidential Center opened in Yekaterinburg, where there is a museum with the personal belongings of the former Russian president. For example, a statement of resignation from the party, the pen with which he signed decrees, and a diploma of graduation.
According to the widow of the former president, the activities of the Yeltsin Center will help the younger generation obtain reliable information about that difficult time for Russia.
Yeltsin periodically organizes culinary master classes in children's cafes and restaurants in Yeltsin's center. The famous husband did not like to eat outside the house, they did not have servants, so Naina Yeltsina has many recipes in her piggy bank.
In May 2018, Naina Iosifovna received an invitation to.
“A month and a half ago, Yeltsin made a will”
"As you say, Tanya, so it will be"
Original of this material
© "Your Day", 04/24/2007, Shortly before his death, Boris Yeltsin restored the missing documents in order to draw up a will
Last will
Anton Stepanov
Despite the fact that the Yeltsins own estates in many countries of the world, Boris Nikolayevich was very worried that he had lost the documents for the state-owned dacha in Gorki, which he managed to privatize. The value of the land under the dacha is estimated at several million dollars. They took pity on the poor old man and gave him new, clean documents for the land, better than the previous ones... At the same time, it didn’t take Boria Nikolaevich much time to do this, although the Odintsovo district is famous for the fact that land documents here take years to be corrected.
Shortly before his death, Boris Yeltsin took care of the well-being of his relatives - a month and a half ago, the ex-president of Russia made a will. All the media reported a month ago that Yeltsin had lost his land documents. Most likely, these documents did not exist. They just made them for Yeltsin...
The newspaper "Your Day", under the patronage of presidential press secretary Alexei Gromov, reports that:
“The head of state left his relatives an inheritance of two plots of land in Gorki-9.
When Boris Nikolaevich was at the helm, his residence was located there. Yeltsin used it while he served as president of the country.
After his departure from big politics, the dacha was returned to the state. But after some time, the residence was again given to Boris Nikolaevich, this time for indefinite use. However, documents for plots in the Odintsovo district worth 60 million rubles disappeared without a trace, and Yeltsin decided to restore them himself.[...]
The ex-president might need the land papers to formalize the inheritance.
Let us remind you that on Tuesday, March 6, 53-year-old Alexander Moskovkin came to the capital’s Krylatskoye police department and presented to the law enforcement officers the identity of a confidant of ex-President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. On his behalf, he wrote a statement about the loss of important documents - certificates of ownership of 2 land plots with an area of 3.75 and 0.25 hectares in the Odintsovo district. Moreover, he indicated that the securities disappeared under unknown circumstances. We are talking about land in Gorki-9, allocated to Yeltsin on April 5, 1995 by the head of the Odintsovo district administration.
While filling out the application, Alexander Moskovkin made a mistake. The naked eye can see the correction in the document - 3.75 has been corrected for 0.75 hectares.
“I was in a hurry and accidentally peed myself,” commented Alexander Alexandrovich. - There's a number three.
The loss of documents deprived the future heirs of the ex-president of the opportunity to sell plots and rent them out, experts explained. - Apparently, that’s why Boris Nikolaevich decided not to shift legal procedures to the heirs, but through a proxy he restored the lost certificate.[...]
The very next day, the police department gave Moskovkin a certificate stating that important documents had indeed been lost. This paper gives Yeltsin the right to begin the process of restoring the lost certificate. However, as they explained to us at LLC “Zemlya” of the Odintsovo district, having lost the documents, Boris Nikolaevich does not cease to be the owner of these lands, since the Land Cadastral Chamber has a record that he is the owner of these plots. The district land committee also confirmed that two plots in Gorki-9 legally belong to the ex-president.
Boris Nikolaevich can even now, without a certificate, transfer the plots by inheritance, and the heirs will also be the legal owners, explained Zemlya LLC. - The loss of documents deprives him and future heirs of the opportunity to sell land plots and rent them out. Apparently, this is why Boris Nikolaevich decided not to shift legal procedures to the heirs, but through a proxy to restore the lost certificate.
However, not all so simple. According to the new Land Code, all transactions with land can only be carried out upon registration with the state cadastral register at the cadastral chamber. But Yeltsin cannot register with the Chamber without a certificate of ownership! It turns out that he is not registered at all. And if Yeltsin suddenly wants to rent out plots of land, he will have to call a specialist from the cadastral chamber to carry out land surveying - repeated measurements of all areas of land plots, and there must also be no disputes about the location of plot boundaries between neighbors.
Yeltsin's crossing of the Alps
Tatiana Dyachenko became von Leitenschlössel?
Alexander Fitz, Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Munich
The Alpine town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen is perhaps the most famous winter resort in Germany. Olympic competitions were held here, the Catholic Church of St. Martin is located here, which at the beginning of the 18th century was decorated with frescoes by the “incomparable” Matthaus Gunther, the most mysterious king of Bavaria, Louis II, loved to visit here, and European and North American celebrities always sunbathe and ski here.
But all this is already in the past. Today, residents of the German town are most concerned about the fate of Leitenschlössel Castle. Which, according to the German press, was bought by the daughter of the Russian President Tatyana Dyachenko.
This “palace of fairy tales,” as the locals call it in the old-fashioned way, is located on the street Wilhelm von Müller Weg, which curves up to the very foot of the incredibly beautiful Alps.
The view from it of the surrounding mountain peaks, a river, meadows, neat Bavarian houses and estates cannot be described in words.
The air, filled with the smells of alpine herbs and flowers, is crystal clear, and it seems impossible to breathe in them.
On the advice of Willie, the owner of a local gas station, we set out on foot to search for Dyachenko’s house.
If you're not local, he said, you probably won't be able to drive up the steep, twisting street. And then, up there, where your Yeltsin’s daughter bought a palace, there is no parking space.
So, does that mean the house still belongs to her?
“I’m not entirely sure about this,” Willie laughed, “since I haven’t personally seen the purchase and sale agreement.” But people say that Frau Yeltsin is now our neighbor.
Have you met her herself?
Me not. But cars with Russian license plates now often fill up for me...
Having bought a detailed map of the town from Willy, we went to the place where house N10 was supposed to be located on Wilhelm von Müller Weg, which, as they wrote, was bought by Tatyana Dyachenko. But we didn’t see either the house or the palace with this number. Immediately after the house N8 was N12.
Sitting on the veranda of house No. 8, planted to the brim with flowers, an elderly woman silently watched us.
Excuse me, - we turn to her, - but where is house No. 10?
There is no such house here,” she answers gloomily.
Why is the woman so unfriendly? The overwhelming majority of local Germans are very kind-hearted people. And how is it that there is no house N10?
What kind of track is this? - we point to something like a wide sidewalk, which turns off the main road and disappears behind a hill lined with trees. -Can we see where this path leads?
No, you can’t,” the stern lady interrupts us. - I already said that no one lives there. You may have problems.
Nobody lives there,” she says evasively.
But we understand that we are on the right path, and - not without fear - we are already walking along the path.
It turned out everything was correct. Here it is - the house at N10.
Actually, it doesn’t look much like a fairytale castle, but it looks very impressive. A metal fence and old trees hide most of the site. There are three garages in the yard. The huge windows are not curtained, but it is difficult to see what is behind them. On the gate there is a sign in German: “Private property. No unauthorized entry,” but the owner’s name is missing.
But there was an envelope sticking out of the desk drawer. It was a letter from a very famous Munich company, Kristall-Lenchten, which manufactures crystal chandeliers. And it was addressed... personally to Tatyana Yeltsina (namely Yeltsina, not Dyachenko).
And they turned out to be right. So, we managed to find out that the Russians came here several times in Mercedes jeeps and that recently minor repair work was carried out here.
We were luckier at Joseph Fraundorfer's guest house. Firstly, we learned that last New Year Tatyana Dyachenko not only spent several days in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but also tasted exclusively Bavarian dishes in a local beer garden accompanied by Bavarian music.
This lady,” Herr Fraundorfer said, looking at Tatiana’s photograph from the magazine, “was not alone. She behaved like an ordinary Russian tourist.
But judging by the people accompanying her, they felt at home here. It was clear from everything that this was not the first time they had visited us.
As for the official authorities of the town, they did not refute or confirm the rumors regarding the acquisition of Leitenschlössel castle by Boris Yeltsin’s daughter. The mayor of Garmin-Partenkirchen, Toni Neidlinger, said that he could not say anything concrete about this. And his deputy, Bivi Rem, said that he had heard about the Russian president’s daughter visiting their resort, but had not met her personally.
And finally, we met with a young local journalist, Zilke Jandreski, who specializes in materials about bohemians and all kinds of celebrities.
“I was able to establish,” said Zilke, “that this romantic castle, which, by the way, is protected by the state as an architectural monument, changed owners last fall. In this case, the favorite trick of the “new Russians” was used, when all documents are drawn up in the name of intermediaries, in this case - in the name of a Liechtenstein company. But Tatyana Dyachenko personally came to the Bavarian Alps twice and examined Leitenschlössel.
Local residents are calm about the fact that Yeltsin’s daughter will soon become their neighbor. Tony Weiskopf, whom we met in the beer hall of Herr Fraundorfer's guest yard, for example, said: “It’s clear that one day President Yeltsin’s relatives will have to leave Russia.” So they are preparing a place for themselves. And then, real estate in Germany is a good investment: many presidents from Africa or Latin America do the same...
Returning to Munich, I called the Kristall-Lenchten company, whose address, as you remember, was copied from the envelope sticking out of the mailbox. The secretary connected with the head of the Russian department, Dr. Faustig.
If there is a Russian department, does that mean crystal chandeliers are in demand among Russians? - I asked him.
Of course! - Herr Faustig laughed into the phone. - And we are very happy about this.
President Yeltsin’s daughter also ordered chandeliers from you?
“We are happy about this,” he said evasively. “But I’m not sure whether she made the order herself or delegated it to someone else.” We need to look at the papers."