List of Soviet and Russian leaders by height

Soviet and Russian leaders by height order (post 1917)

The following table lists the heights of Soviet and Russian paramount leaders (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, President of the Soviet Union and President of Russian Federation). The average height of Russian leaders is about 1.72 m (5'8).

Rank	Name	Term	Height in meters	Height in feet and inches
1	Boris Yeltsin	1991-1999	1.87	6'1½
2	Yuriy Andropov	1982-1984	1.79	5'10½
3	Konstantin Chernenko	1984-1985	1.77	5'9¾
4	Leonid Brezhnev	1964-1982	1.76	5'9½
5	Mikhail Gorbachev	1985-1991	1.75	5'9
6	Georgy Malenkov	1953	1.70	5'7
6	Vladimir Putin	since 1999	1.70	5'7
8	Vladimir Lenin	1917-1924	1.65	5'5
9	Joseph Stalin	1924-1953	1.64	5'4½
10	Nikita Khrushchev	1953-1964	1.60	5'3