Coup failed
KGB
Supporting republics: Azerbaijan Pridnestrovian SSR Byelorussia Tajikistan Turkmenia
LDPSUInternational support:
Government of the RSFSR
Opposition republics: Armenia Estonia Georgia Kazakhstan Kirghizia Latvia Lithuania Moldavia Ukraine Uzbekistan
UNA-UNSO
Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin Ivan Silayev Konstantin Kobets Edgar Savisaar Ivars Godmanis Gediminas Vagnorius Levon Ter-Petrosyan Zviad Gamsakhurdia Nursultan Nazarbayev Askar Akayev Mircea Snegur Valeriu Muravschi Leonid Kravchuk Islam Karimov