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.
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet politician
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human → |
| affiliatedWith |
State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR
→
surface form:
State Committee on the State of Emergency
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| associatedWith |
Soviet government
→
Soviet security and party apparatus → All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions →
surface form:
Soviet trade unions
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| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union → |
| employer |
Soviet government
→
surface form:
Government of the Soviet Union
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| familyName | Yanayev → |
| fieldOfWork |
politics
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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
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| 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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