Vasily Guslyannikov

Vasily Dmitriyevich Guslyannikov (; born 21 April 1949) is a Russian retired politician, who served as first and only President of Mordovia in 1991–1993.

Biography Vasily Guslyannikov was born in 1949 in Voronezh Oblast. Since 1961, he has lived in Mordovia. In 1971, he graduated from the Mordovian State University. Since 1973, he was an engineer at the semiconductor plant "Elektrovypryamitel", Saransk. In 1990, he was elected a People's Deputy of the Mordovian ASSR. He led the Democratic Russia electoral bloc, which had a majority in the Saransk City Council. and appointed Valery Shvetsov as prime minister. As a result, two parallel governments existed for some time, but gradually most of Guslyannikov's ministers went to work with Shvetsov. In June 1993, the Constitutional Court of Russia recognized abolition of Mordovian presidency as legal.

Since 1996, Vasily Guslyannikov chairs the Mordovian Human Rights Center. He is married and has two daughters.