BORIS
YELTSIN
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Full
Name
Boris
Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Birthdate
February
1, 1931
Birthplace
Butka
Nikolai
Yeltsin and Klavdiya Vasilyevna Yeltsina
Naina
Iosifovna Girina
Yelena
and Tatiana
VB History
Boris graduated from Pushkin High School in Berezniki, Molotov (Perm) region, where his parents lived from late 1930s to the early 1970s. After graduation, Boris went to Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk. While in college, Yeltsin played pro volleyball for Sverdlovsk in the USSR first division where Yeltsin became captain of this team. In 1955, he graduated from Ural Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Construction.