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Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (Russian: Геннадий Иванович Янаев; 26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010) was a Soviet politician. Yanayev's political career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast.
Sep 24, 2010 · Yanayev was one of the 12 members of the State Emergency Committee that tried to oust Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, but failed due to public protests. He later claimed he was drunk when he declared himself president and denied affecting his judgment.
The coup leaders consisted of top military and civilian officials, including Vice President Gennady Yanayev, who together formed the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP).
- 19-22 August 1991(4 days); 32 years ago
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Sep 25, 2010 · MOSCOW Gennadi I. Yanayev, a former Soviet apparatchik who was part of a short-lived coup in 1991 that hastened the fall of the Soviet Union, died Friday in Moscow, according to Russian news...
Gennady Yanayev was the vice-president of the Soviet Union who briefly replaced Mikhail Gorbachev in a failed coup attempt in August 1991. He was a Soviet bureaucrat who rose through the ranks of Komsomol and the trade union movement, and later became a nostalgic supporter of the Soviet Union.
Sep 24, 2010 · Gennady Yanayev, a leader of the abortive 1991 Soviet coup who briefly declared himself president replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, has died at age 73, Russia’s Communist Party announced Friday.
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Sep 24, 2010 · Former Soviet Vice-President Gennady Yanayev, who led an abortive coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died in a Moscow hospital aged 73. The coup failed and Yanayev was arrested, but he was pardoned in 1994.
