在那里,他引起了俄罗斯首位民选总统鲍里斯•叶利钦(BorisYeltsin)的注意,后者在第二年任命其担任下诺夫哥罗德州州长。
There , he caught the eye of Boris Yeltsin , Russia 's first democratically elected president , who appointed him governor of Nizhny Novgorod the following year .