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Mikhail Gorbachev was assigned the title of president on the 15th of march 1990. before that the title was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet. Following his resignation in 1991 the Soviet Union formally dissolved.

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On March 14, 1990, the newly created (1989) Congress of People's Deputies voted to end the Communist party's control over the government and elected Gorbachev President of the Soviet Union. He was also the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from may 25 1989 to march 15, 1990. The "Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet" was the equivalent of President of the state

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The leader of USSR in 1950 was Joseph Stalin 1878- 1953.

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Nobody, really. The office of President was created in the Soviet Union in 1990, and Gorbachev became the first and only Soviet President.

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