the defeat of the pair nikolay ryshkov - boris gromov, who received less than 17% was devastating.nsationally won by vladimir zhirinovsky, who became. from that moment on, he became a significant and colorful figure in russian politics. yeltsin predictably received the greatest support in the urals, moscow and leningrad. in the last two capital cities, simultaneously with the presidential elections, mayoral elections were held for the first time, which were convincingly won by yeltsin's associates, gavriil popov and anatoly sobchak. the election of boris yeltsin as president of russia in direct popular elections dealt a serious blow. by the legitimacy of the ussr president mikhail gorbachev, elected only by the congress of allied deputies. it became clear that it was impossible to defeat or at least push aside yeltsin by political or legal methods in the coming years. gorbachev could only accept the inevitable and try to re-enter an alliance with yeltsin in an effort to maintain at least a limited role in the renewed union of nine republics. july 10, 1900. ninety-one , gorbachev un

boris yeltsin was the officially supported cpsu, nikolai ryshkov, former head of the union council of ministers. he was paired with the first deputy minister of internal affairs of the ussr, colonel general boris gromovommander in the country who withdrew soviet troops from. afghanistan, the conservative tandem ryshkov-kromov, with their appearance and words, promised illusory soviet stability. another colonel general, albert makasov, commander of the volga-ural military district, with his frenzied rhetoric, addressed the radical communist voter for support, for the votes of the working people, primarily miners, dissatisfied with rising prices, the ardent populist kuzbasovets amangeldy tuleyev fought, and sought the liberal intelligentsia. a constant theme for yeltsin was the emphasis on russian sovereignty, especially economic sovereignty, which was supposed to ensure the republic’s withdrawal from the crisis. it was not limited to naked criticism. he also took up the theme of a renewed union, promising to speed up the preparation of a union treaty. yeltsin’s access to the media was extremely limited in june 1991; russian television was then only taking its first steps, but most of all yeltsin worke