• Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (Russian: Геннадий Иванович Янаев; 26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010) was a Soviet politician. Yanayev's political career spanned...
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  • Tartakovsky, Russian-American cartoonist Gennady Yanayev, the only vice president of the Soviet Union Gennady Zyuganov, Russian political party leader...
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    consisted of top military and civilian officials, including Vice President Gennady Yanayev, who together formed the State Committee on the State of Emergency...
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    president would become president. The only person to hold this office was Gennady Yanayev, who the following year became the leader of the Gang of Eight which...
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    over eight years, Vasily Kuznetsov spent the longest time in office. Gennady Yanayev spent the shortest time in office. Soviet Union-related Presidium of...
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  • Serbia, and Socialist Republic of Montenegro. The eight members were: Gennady Yanayev (1937–2010), Vice President Valentin Pavlov (1937–2003), Premier Boris...
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    Soviet Union breaking up after the failed August 1991 coup led by Gennady Yanayev. The following list includes those who held the top leadership position...
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  • Crimea. The Commission on the Problems of the Crimean Tatars headed by Gennady Yanayev was formed on 12 July 1989. Just like in the previous commission, members...
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    system, a group of Soviet hard-liners represented by Vice-president Gennady Yanayev launched a coup overthrowing Gorbachev in August 1991. Russian President...
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  • to the Gulf War and famine. The line about tyrants trembling shows Gennady Yanayev, leader of the 1991 August Coup, in a press conference with visibly...
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    plotters publicly announced that Gorbachev was ill and thus Vice President Yanayev would take charge of the country. Yeltsin, now President of the Russian...
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    first members included Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Vice President Gennady Yanayev, Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh (politician), Defence Minister...
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    centralized power structure. On 19 August 1991, Gorbachev's vice president, Gennady Yanayev, Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, KGB...
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    visited Russia and his meeting with vice president of the Soviet Union Gennady Yanayev at May 1991, three months before Soviet coup attempt. Inoki appeared...
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    new presidential cabinet such as Boris Pugo, Valentin Pavlov, and Gennady Yanayev to undermine Gorbachev's rule. This group of eight ministers eventually...
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  • formation of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. Vice President Gennady Yanayev is announced as Acting President of the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin...
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    Butorin (aka Osya) Maxim Martsinkevich Sergei Mavrodi Michael Calvey Gennady Yanayev Schreck, Carl (October 30, 2003). "Day in the Life of Mikhail Borisovich"...
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  • singer (d. 2022) Francesco Musso, Italian Olympic boxer August 26 – Gennady Yanayev, former Soviet leader (d. 2010) August 27 – Alice Coltrane, African-American...
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    Vladimir Kryuchkov was a Soviet lawyer, diplomat and head of the KGB Gennady Yanayev was a Soviet Russian politician and statesman whose career spanned...
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  • coach (b. 1918) 2009 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (b. 1975) 2010 – Gennady Yanayev, Russian engineer and politician, Vice President of the Soviet Union...
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    itself. The coup was led by the acting president of the Soviet Union, Gennady Yanayev. July–August 1990 – Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency...
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    chief of party ideology, sometimes called the "godfather of glasnost" Gennady Yanayev (1937–2010), the only vice president of the Soviet Union Sergey Akhromeyev...
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    Russian SFSR Mikhail Suslov, leading ideologist during the Brezhnev era Gennady Yanayev, leader of the August Coup that attempted to depose Gorbachev Nikolai...
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    the Russian Federation (CPRF) in 1993, he was described by its leader Gennady Zyuganov as having been the Deng Xiaoping of the party. He published books...
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  • Mikhail Surkov Михаил Сурков By-election Banned 1945 Alive 1968 Russian Male Gennady Yanayev Геннадий Янаев New Relieved 1937 2010 1962 Russian Male...
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  • as president. Vice President Gennady Yanayev was named acting president. The committee's eight members included Yanayev, KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov...
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  • Alexander Shelepin 1976: Alexei Shibaev 1982: Stepan Shalaev 1990: Gennady Yanayev Ashwin, Sarah; Clarke, Simon (2002). Russian Trade Unions and Industrial...
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    highly centralized union state. The Emergency Committee was led by Gennady Yanayev, Vice President of the Soviet Union, Interior Minister Boris Pugo,...
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  • In office 1982–1990 Preceded by Alexei Shibayev [ru] Succeeded by Gennady Yanayev Personal details Born Stepan Alekseevich Shalaev (1929-01-05)5 January...
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    officials calling themselves the State Emergency Committee announced that Gennady Yanayev was to replace Gorbachev as President of the Soviet Union. 20 August...
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