1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
attempted coup d'état in the USSR against Mikhail Gorbachev's government in August 1991
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1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt is an attempted coup d'état[1]. It is a type of coup d'état[2].
Key Facts
- Country: Soviet Union[3]
- Instance of: military coup[4]
- Named after: August 1991[5]
- Location: Moscow[6]
- Part of: Revolutions of 1989[7]
- Start time: August 19, 1991[8]
- End time: August 21, 1991[9]
- Participant: State Committee on the State of Emergency[10], Gennady Yanayev[11], Dmitry Yazov[12], Vladimir Kryuchkov[13], Valentin Pavlov[14], Boris Pugo[15], Oleg Baklanov[16], Vasily Starodubtsev[17], Ayaz Mutallibov[18], Qahhor Mahkamov[19], Saparmurat Niyazov[20]
- Has effect: Declaration of Independence of Ukraine[21], dissolution of the Soviet Union[22]
- Different from: 1993 Russian constitutional crisis[23]
- Time period: August 1991[24]