The former President "died of a sudden death in Moscow on Monday," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Kremlin source as saying.
The White House mourned Yeltsin as "a historic figure" and offered condolences to his relatives, according to reports reaching here.
Born on Feb. 1, 1931, Yeltsin worked as construction worker, communist party official and served as Russia’s first elected President since 1991 after the independence of the former Soviet Union member country.
He transferred power to President Vladimir Putin on Dec. 31, 1999 and resigned from his post of President. He then kept a low profile.
Yeltsin graduated in 1955 from the Urals Polytechnics Institute in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), where he was born. He joined the Communist Party in 1961.
(VietNamNet Bridge / Xinhua)
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