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| 1903 | Witte |  |
| Appointed President of the Council of Ministers |
| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 15th Sep Appointed President of the Petrograd Soviet |
| 1917 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 16th Oct Appointed President of the Military Revolutionary Committee |
| 1918 | Chernov, Viktor Mikhaylovich | |
| Appointed President of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly |
| 1918 | Tomsky, Mikhail | |
| Appointed President of the Central Council of Soviet Trade Unions |
| 1918 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Appointed President of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers |
| Appointed President of the Third International |
| 1937 | Kalinin, Mikhail Ivonovich | |
| Appointed President of the Central Executive Committee, 2nd term |
| 1938 | Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich | |
| Appointed President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the USSR |
| 1946 | Shvernik, Nikolai | |
| Appointed President of Russia |
| 1953 | Efremovich, Klement | |
| Appointed President of Russia |
| 1953 | Voroshilov, Klement | |
| Appointed President of Russia |
| 1953 | Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Appointed President of Russia |
| 1960 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| Moscow Appointed ceremonial state representative |
| Appointed President of Russia |
| 1964 | Mikoyan, Anastas | |
| Appointed President of Russia |
| 1965 | Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich | |
| Appointed President of Russia |
| 1975 | Alexandrov, Anatoly Petrovich | |
| Appointed President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences |
| 1977 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| Appointed President of Russia |
| 1982 | Kuznetsov, Valery | |
| Appointed President of Russia, 1st term, acting |
| 1984 | Kuznetsov, Valery | |
| Appointed President of Russia, 2nd term, acting |
| 1985 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 10th Mar Appointed President of the Supreme Soviet |
| 1985 | Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich | |
| 2nd July Appointed President of Russia |
| 1985 | Kuznetsov, Valery | |
| Appointed President of Russia, 3rd term, acting |
| 1985 | Tikhonov, Nikolai | |
| 10th Mar Supports the proposal for Gorbachev as a replacement for Chernenko |
| 1988 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Appointed President of Russia, has a power base outside the Communist Party |
| 1990 | Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Presidential Council |
| 1990 | Lukianov, Anatoly Ivanovich | |
| Appointed Vice President of Russia |
| 1990 | Primakov, Evgeny Maksimovich | |
| June Appointed Member of the Presidential Council |
| 1990 | Rasputin, Valentin Grigorevich | |
| Appointed Member of the Presidential Council |
| 1991 | Yanaev, Gennady Ivanovich | |
| 19th Aug Moscow Appointed President of Russia by the Emergency Committee |
| 19th Aug Moscow Declares a state of emergency |
| 19th Aug Moscow Declares Gorbachev deposed |
| 19th Aug Moscow Forms an 8 man Emergency Committee |
| 19th Aug Moscow Gennady Yanayev is declared Gorbachev's replacement as President |
| 21st Aug Moscow The coup fails & Yanaev is arrested but later amnestied by the Russian Duma |
| 1991 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 12th June Yeltsin consolidates his position when he is elected to the newly created position of Russian Executive President |
| 1996 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| Appointed Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department headed by Pavel Borodin |
| 1996 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 25th Mar Appointed President of Russia, 2nd term |
| 1997 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| Appointed Chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department |
| 1999 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 31st Dec Appointed President of Russia, acting |
| 31st Dec Unity's electoral success gives Yeltsin the confidence to resign in favour of Prime Minister Putin (who becomes Acting President upon Yeltsin's resignation) |
| 31st Dec Yeltsin announces his resignation and hands power over to Prime Minister Putin |
| 31st Dec Yeltsin unexpectedly resigns and, according to the constitution, Putin becomes (acting) President of the Russian Federation |
| 2000 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 7th May Appointed President of Russia |
