This is the list of the heads of state of Russia. For a more detailed, but shorter list (encompassing only the heads of state after the Soviet Union), go to List of presidents of Russia. For leaders prior to 1917, see List of Russian rulers.
| # | Picture | Name | Term of office | Party | | Russian Provisional Government (1917) |
| 1 | Georgy Lvov | 15 March 1917 | 21 July 1917 | Constitutional Democratic Party |
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| 2 | Alexander Kerensky [1] | 21 July 1917 | 7 November 1917 | Socialist-Revolutionary Party (Trudovik faction) |
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| Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991) |
| 3 | Lev Kamenev | 7 November 1917 | 21 November 1917 | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks) |
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| 4 | Yakov Sverdlov | 21 November 1917 | 16 March 1919 | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks)/
Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
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| 5 | Mikhail Vladimirsky | 16 March 1919 | 30 March 1919 | Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
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| 6 | Mikhail Kalinin | 30 March 1919 | 15 July 1938 | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
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| 7 | Aleksei Badayev | 15 July 1938 | 4 March 1944 | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
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| 8 | Nikolay Shvernik | 4 March 1944 | 25 June 1946 | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
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| 9 | Ivan Vlasov | 25 June 1946 | 7 July 1950 | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
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| 9 | Mikhail Tarasov | 7 July 1950 | 16 April 1959 | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)/
Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| 10 | Nikolai Ignatov | 16 April 1959 | 26 November 1959 | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| 11 | Nikolai Organov | 26 November 1959 | 20 December 1962 | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| (10) | Nikolai Ignatov | 20 December 1962 | 14 November 1966 | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| 12 | | Mikhail Yasnov | 14 November 1966 | 26 March 1985 | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| 13 | | Vladimir Orlov | 26 March 1985 | 3 October 1988 | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| 14 | | Vitaly Vorotnikov | 3 October 1988 | 29 May 1990 | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| 15 | Boris Yeltsin | 29 May 1990 | 25 December 1991 | Independent |
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| Russian Federation (since 1991) |
| 1 | Boris Yeltsin | 25 December 1991 | 31 December 1999 | Independent |
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| — | | Vladimir Putin | 31 December 1999 | 7 May 2000 | Unity |
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| 2 | 7 May 2000 | 7 May 2008 | Unity/
Independent |
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| 3 | Dmitry Medvedev | 7 May 2008 | 7 May 2012 | United Russia |
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| (2) | Vladimir Putin | 7 May 2012 | incumbent | United Russia/ Independent |
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1. ^Also Head of the Russian Provisional Government