Russia/UK Leader Timeline By Brandonpolanco Nov 9, 1917 Vladimir Lenin Feb 2, 1924 Alexey Rykov May 18, 1929 Sergei Syrtsov Nov 3, 1930 Daniil Sulimov Jul 22, 1937 Nikolai Bulganin Jul 29, 1939 Vasiliy Vakrushev Jun 2, 1940 Ivan Khokhlov Jun 23, 1943 Alexei Kosygin Mar 23, 1946 Mikhail Rodionov Mar 9, 1949 Boris Chernousov Oct 20, 1952 Alexander Puzanov Jan 24, 1956 Mikhail Yasnov Dec 19, 1957 Frol Kozlov Mar 31, 1958 Dmitry Polyansky Nov 23, 1962 Gennady Voronov Jul 28, 1971 Mikhail Solomentsev Period: May 4, 1979 to Nov 28, 1990 Magaret Thatcher (Conservative) Jun 24, 1983 Vitaly Vorotnikov Oct 3, 1988 Alexander Vlasov Jun 15, 1990 Ivan Silayev Period: Nov 28, 1990 to May 2, 1997 John Major (Conservative) Sep 26, 1991 Oleg Lobov Nov 6, 1991 Boris Yeltsin Jun 15, 1992 Yegor Gaidar/Boris Yeltsin Dec 14, 1992 Viktor Chernomyrdin/Boris Yeltsin Period: May 2, 1997 to Jun 27, 2007 Tony Blair (Labour) Mar 23, 1998 Sergei Kiriyenko/Boris Yeltsin Aug 23, 1998 Viktor Chernomyrdin/Boris Yeltsin Sep 11, 1998 Yevgeny Primakov/Boris Yeltsin May 12, 1999 Sergei Stepashin/Boris Yeltsin Aug 9, 1999 Vladimir Putin/Boris Yeltsin May 7, 2000 Mikhail Kasyanov/Vladimir Putin Feb 24, 2004 Viktor Khristenko/Vladimir Putin Mar 5, 2004 Mikhail Fradkov/Vladimir Putin Period: Jun 27, 2007 to May 11, 2010 Gordon Brown (Labour) Sep 14, 2007 Viktor Zubkov/Vladimir Putin May 8, 2008 Vladimir Putin/Dmitry Medvedev Period: May 11, 2010 to Nov 27, 2012 David Cameron (Conservative) May 7, 2012 Viktor Zubkov/Vladimir Putin May 8, 2012 Dmitry Medvedev/Vladimir Putin