The Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the de-facto leader of the Russian SFSR between 1938 and 1991. The Russian SFSR enjoyed only limited autonomy from the Soviet Union.
- Aleksey Badeyev (1938-1944)
- Nikolay Shvernik (1944-1946)
- Ivan Vlasov (1946-1950)
- Mikhail Tarasov (1950-1959)
- Nikolay Ignatov (1959)
- Nikolay Organov (1959-1962)
- Nikolay Ignatov (1962-1966)
- Mikhail Yasnov (1966-1985)
- Vladimir Orlov (1985-1988)
- Vitaly Vorotnikov (1988-1990)
- Boris Yeltsin (1990-1991)
