Candidates in the 1991 Russian presidential election

This article contains the list of candidates associated with the 1991 Russian presidential election.

Registered candidates Candidates for president are listed in Russian alphabetical order. Presidential candidate name, age, political partyPolitical officesVice Presidential candidateCampaign Vadim Bakatin()Independent Interior Minister of the USSR Ramazan AbdulatipovChairman of the Soviet of Nationalities ((campaign) Boris Yeltsin()Independent Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia Alexander RutskoyMember of the Supreme Soviet of Russia (campaign) Vladimir Zhirinovsky()Liberal Democratic Party Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union Entrepreneur(campaign) Albert Makashov()Independent People's Deputy of the USSR , commander of the Volga–Ural Military District Member of the CPSU Central Committee , economist (campaign) Nikolai Ryzhkov()Communist Party of the RSFSR (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Premier of the Soviet Union Boris GromovPeople's Deputy of the USSR , commander of the Kiev Military District (campaign) Aman Tuleyev()Independent Chairman of the Kemerovo Oblast Council of People's Deputies People's Deputy of Russia , construction executive (campaign)

Candidates that failed to register Boris Gromov, military veteran; ended his campaign and was instead registered as Ryzhkov's (who was nominated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) vice-presidential candidate Roman Kalinin (nominated by Libertarian Party), co-head of the Moscow Gay & Lesbian Alliance (ineligible, younger than the minimum age of 35) V. Potemkin (nominated by League of Independent Scientists of the RSFSR) Aleksei Alekseyevich Sergeyev (nominated by Communists of Russia and the Initiative Congress of Russian Communists), ended his campaign and was instead registered as Makashov's vice-presidential candidate Lev Ubozhko, former dissident, leader of the Conservative Party of Russia Vladimir V. Voronin, leader of "Centrist Bloc of political parties"

Possible candidates who did not run Mikhail Bocharov, people's deputy of Russia, 1990 premier candidate Svetlana Goryacheva, deputy chairwoman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia Ivan Polozkov, head of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Anatoly Sobchak, chairman of the Leningrad city council (ran for mayor instead)

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