Gennady Yanayev

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Gennady Yanayev was a Soviet politician who served as the USSR’s first and only vice president and became a key leader of the failed August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician
human
affiliatedWith State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR
surface form: State Committee on the State of Emergency
associatedWith Soviet government
Soviet security and party apparatus
All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
surface form: Soviet trade unions
countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
employer Soviet government
surface form: Government of the Soviet Union
familyName Yanayev
fieldOfWork politics
trade unionism
givenName Gennady
hasCauseOfNotability being the first and only vice president of the USSR
hasEthnicGroup Russian
hasHistoricalSignificance symbol of the failed hardline resistance to Soviet reforms
hasHonorificTitle Soviet statesman
hasPoliticalRole conservative opponent of Gorbachev’s reforms
hasReputation coup plotter
last vice head of state of the USSR
ideology Marxism–Leninism
influencedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
languageSpoken Russian
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
nativeLanguage Russian
notableFor leading role in the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev
notableWork public declarations during the August 1991 coup
officeContested leadership of the Soviet Union during August 1991 coup
opposedBy Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev
participatedIn August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
surface form: 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
partOf Soviet leadership during the late perestroika period
politicalAlignment hardline communist
positionHeld Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
Vice President of the Soviet Union
member of the Politburo of the CPSU
residence Moscow
roleInEvent self-declared acting president of the USSR during August 1991 coup
sexOrGender male
significantEvent collapse of the August 1991 coup
disintegration of the Soviet Union
timePeriod late Soviet period
workLocation Moscow

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