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| | Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Boris Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in Butka village, Talitsa district, Sverdlovsk region. |
 | | Yeltsin studied at Pushkin High School in Berezniki, Perm region and the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk, majoring in construction, and graduated in 1955. |
 | | A week later, on December 8, Boris Yeltsin met with Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk and the leader of Belarus, Stanislau Shushkevich, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha residence, where the three presidents announced the dissolution of the USSR and that they would establish a voluntary Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place. |
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