Yevgenia Bosch is sometimes considered the first modern woman leader of a national government. She was Minister of Interior and the Acting Leader in 1917-18 of the People's Secretariat of Ukraine in the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, one of Soviet puppet states that existed on the territory of Ukraine during Soviet–Ukrainian War.[1][2] Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, of the mostly unrecognized and now-defunct Tuvan People's Republic, is regarded as "first ever elected woman head of state in the world".[3] She became the chair of the country's presidium in 1940.