3472289 Boris Yeltsin, chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet and Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan at the 4th Congress of People\'s Deputies of the USSR, 1991 (colour photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Russian SFSR and Nursultan Г„bishuly Nazarbayev, born 1940, who was leader of Kazakhstan since 1989, when he was named First Secretary of the Central Committe of the Communist Party of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. He was a member of the Politburo from 1990 and was elected the nation\'s first president following its independence from the Soviet Union in December 1991. Photo by Palladin); Sputnik; Russian, out of copyright.