Boris Yeltsin, he was elected in 1990 and re-elected in 1991!
Mikhail Gorbachev
It's a Russian word for council or committee and after the Russian Revolution in 1917 became the basic administrative unit of the country at a local level. USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Vladamir Putin.
In English, the USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics In Russian, the CCCP or Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik
They were independent republics.
Lenin controlled Russia, which soon after changed its name to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, which in 1922 became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR after it annexed the independent republics of the Ukraine, Georgia and Transcaucasia.
Borris Yeltsin was elected by popular vote to the position of President of the Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in June 1991. He won 57% of the vote against with 6 other candidates. When the USSR was dissolved in December, Yeltsin remained in office, becoming the first president of the Russian Federation. He was reelected in 1996.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)
The Russian Federation is what was left after the Soviet Union disbanded in 1991, as a result of the fall of communism. Each of these states became newly independent following the collapse of the USSR.
In November 1918, the "government" in the sense of the name of the country became the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. In 1922, after joining with Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation, it became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union.
The Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin led the Russian Revolution in 1917 which in 1922 the name officially became the USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union.
The name of the first republic after the Bolshevik Revolution was the "Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic." After the independent republics of Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) agreed to unite with the RSFSR in 1924, the name became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. or USSR.
1991 The USSR did not "turn into Russia." The USSR was a collection of many separate republics into one nation much like the United States is a collection of individual states into one nation. In 1991, the USSR broke up into 15 separate nations one of which was the Russian Federation.