On this day, 34 years ago, July 10, 1991 (May 29, 1991 in the lunar calendar), Boris Yeltsin became the first President of The Russian Federation. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1931.2.1~2007.4.23) was born on sunrise on February 1, 1931 into a peasant family in Butka village, Daritsky district, Sverdlovsk Oblast. He is of Russian origin. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Ural Institute of Technology in 1955, he worked in Sverdlovsk for 30 years. He served as the chief engineer and manager of the city's Housing and Construction Joint Company. After 1976, he served as the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1985, he was transferred to Moscow to serve as a party and political figure. From December 1985 to November 1987, he served as the first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and from November 1987 to May 1989, he served as the first vice chairman of the National Construction Committee of the Soviet Union. He was elected as the People's Representative of the Soviet Union in March 1989, and was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation at the First People's Congress of The Russian Federation in May 1990. In July 1990, at the 28th National Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a series of proposals put forward by the "Democratic Platform" represented by Yeltsin aimed at transforming Soviet society at that time were not accepted by the Congress. He announced his withdrawal from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the end of the Congress. In June 1991, Yeltsin was elected as the first president of The Russian Federation in a national election. In December of the same year, he and the leaders of 10 other republics of the former Soviet Union issued the "Almaty Declaration", announcing the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 1996, he was re-elected President of the Russian Federation. On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin delivered a televised speech, announcing his early retirement from the presidency and appointing Prime Minister Putin as acting president. Author of "Presidential Marathon". He has visited China many times. His wife Naina is a construction engineer. They have two daughters, one is a construction engineer and the other is a cybernetic engineer. The Soviet Union disintegrated because of him, and Russia gradually emerged because of him. He was a great man in history and a hero of the times. On April 23, 2007, he died of a heart attack in Moscow. Comments: Russia's reformists and epoch-making figures.