History of Russia: Book based on rare archival documents comes out in the Urals to mark 80th birthday anniversary of Boris Yeltsin

A book based on rare archival documents has come out in the Urals to mark 80th birthday anniversary of the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin. Presentation of the book entitled “Boris Yeltsin” was held on January 31 2011 at the regional information center “TASS-Ural”.

The book opens a new publishing project “Life of remarkable people of the Urals”, launched in Sverdlovsk Oblast. The head of the book’s group of authors Rudolf Pikhoya, who was the head of the State Archival Service of Russia in the 1990s, said that “the core of the book is formed by unique documents originating from the holdings of the former Supreme Soviet of Russia, as well as state archives of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan Oblast, Perm krai. Most of them have been released for the first time. A case in point, the book provides a detailed study of the origin of a large peasant Yeltsin family which originated from the villages of modern Kurgan Oblast”.

“This is a scientific book, where we tried to preserve principles of scientific research, because if you present the assessment beforehand, you are not a historian but a publicist”, stressed the head of the group of authors.