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Death and state funeral of Boris Yeltsin
Funeral service for Yeltsin in the cathedral, 2007
Date23–25 April 2007
LocationCathedral of Christ the Saviour and Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
ParticipantsVladimir Putin, Sergey Sobyanin, Naina Yeltsina, Mikhail Fradkov, Dmitry Medvedev and others
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, died of cardiac arrest on 23 April 2007, twelve days after being admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Yeltsin was the first Russian head of state to be buried in a church ceremony since Emperor Alexander III, 113 years prior.[1]

On the day Yeltsin died, President Vladimir Putin declared the day of his funeral, held on 25 April 2007,[2] to be a day of national mourning. The ceremony was broadcast live on the main Russian state TV channels, and was attended by current and former heads of state, with a number of them expressing their condolences. The lowering of the coffin into the grave was accompanied by an artillery salute.

  1. ^ "Yeltsin, the man who buried communism"
  2. ^ "Decree "On the declaration of mourning over the death of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his funeral"". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

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