He was born to a peasant family

First of all, one of the most interesting facts about Boris Yeltsin is he was born to a peasant family. On February 1, 1931, Boris Yeltsin was born in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, one of the Soviet Union's republics, in the village of Butka, Talitsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast. His family had been residents of this region of the Urals since at least the seventeenth century, and they were of Russian descent. The fact that Boris Yeltsin came from a low-income household may be the least liked thing to know about him. In Butka village, he, his mother, and his siblings all resided. Klavdiya Vasilyevna Starygina was the bride of Nikolai Yeltsin, his father, in 1928.

Yeltsin always remained more attached to his mother than to his father, who frequently abused his wife and kids. His life was made considerably worse by the 1932–1933 famine, during which he had to get by on little to no food during his formative years. Yeltsin's grandpa Ignatii was accused of being a kulak (rich peasant) during Stalin's purges in 1931, the year before Yeltsin was born. He and his family were made to live in a cottage in the neighboring village of Butka when the family's lands were taken. Ignatii and his wife Anna were deported to Nadezhdinsk in 1934, where he died two years later. There, Nikolai and Ignatii's other children were permitted to join the local kolkhoz (community farm).