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| 1658 | Nikon, Patriarch |  |
| Moscow Threatens to resign to speed up Church Reforms, to his surprise the offer is accepted
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| 1906 | Nicholas II | |
| 16th April Nicholas II responds to pressure from conservatives & dismisses Witte
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| 1906 | Witte | |
| 16th April Nicholas II responds to pressure from conservatives & dismisses Witte
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| 16th April Moscow Resigns as Chairman of the Council of Ministers
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| 1911 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| 11th Mar Stolypin resigns as Prime Minister
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| 1917 | Alexeiev, Mikhail Vasilevich | |
| 12th Sep Resigns as Commander-in-Chief after 12 days after being recalled
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| 1917 | Chernov, Viktor Mikhaylovich | |
| 25th Oct The Kornilov putsch, an attempt by General Kornilov to establish a right wing dictatorship is a disastrous flop, Chernov leader of the Socialist Revolutionaries resigns from the government denouncing Kerensky for complicity
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| 1917 | Kamenev, Lev Borisovich | |
| 20th Oct An injunction is issued against Kamenev reventing further pronouncements
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| 20th Oct Kamenev & Zinoviev resign from the Central Committee
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| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| May Milyukov resigns, members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government
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| 1917 | Miliukov, Paul | |
| May Milyukov resigns, members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government
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| 16th May Moscow Resigns as Foreign Minister
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| 1917 | Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich | |
| 17th Nov Resigns in protest against Lenin's refusal to form a coalition government
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| 1917 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Resigns after Lenin decides to form a Bolshevik government but is re-instated
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| 1918 | Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| Mar Resigns from the Vesenkha after failing to stop the Brest-Litovsk treaty
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| 1949 | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| Moscow Resigns as Commissar of Foreign Affairs
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| 1953 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| 14th Mar Moscow Resigns as 1st Secretary
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| 1955 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| 8th Feb Moscow Resigns as Prime Minister after a budget to reduce arms expenditure is rejected
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| 1965 | Mikoyan, Anastas | |
| 9th Dec Moscow Resigns as the Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet
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| 1977 | Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich | |
| 16th June Moscow Resigns as the Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet
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| 1984 | Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich | |
| Dec Resigns after Gorbachev announces unilateral defence cuts at the United Nations
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| 1987 | Lukyanov, Anatoly | |
| 31st Oct Moscow Holds a news conference & confirms Yeltsin had threatened to resign from the Politburo
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| 1989 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Dec Moscow The Czech government resigns in the wake of mass demonstrations
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| 22nd Dec Moscow The Romanian Government is overthrown
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| 1990 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Dec With the resignation Foreign Minister Eduard Sheverdnadze, the last major 'liberal' in Gorbachev's circle, Gorbachev is left isolated amongst the hard-liners
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| 1990 | Shevardnadze, Eduard | |
| 20th Dec Resigns delaring Russia is heading for a dictatorship
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| 1990 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 12th July Yeltsin & other reformers resign from the Communist Party in the USSR
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| 1991 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 25th Dec Moscow Gorbachev resigns his position as President of the USSR, signifying the demise of the Soviet Union, 14 former Soviet republics (including Russia) become independent states
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| 25th Dec Moscow Resigns as leader of the Communist Party
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| 1991 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Feb Calls for Gorbachev's resignation on TV
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| 25th Dec Gorbachev goes on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence, ousted as Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin established his position
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| 25th Dec Gorbachev's resignation & the establishment of the Russian Republic ends the "Cold War"
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| 1999 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 31st Dec Unity's electoral success gives Yeltsin the confidence to resign in favour of Prime Minister Putin (who becomes Acting President upon Yeltsin's resignation)
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| 1999 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 31st Dec Unity's electoral success gives Yeltsin the confidence to resign in favour of Prime Minister Putin (who becomes Acting President upon Yeltsin's resignation)
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| 31st Dec Yeltsin asks a national TV audience for their forgiveness and apologizes for his mistakes in a resignation speech that surprises the world's media and concludes his eight years as Russia's president
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