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1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt
August Coup/August Putsch

Part of the Revolutions of 1989, Cold War, and Dissolution of the Soviet Union

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Tanks on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, near the Red Square in Moscow during the coup attempt

Date

19–22 August 1991

Location

Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Result

Coup failed, pyrrhic Russian SFSR victory

Surrender of the GKChP
Failure of the Union of Sovereign States proposal
Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Belligerents

Supporting republics:
Azerbaijan
Pridnestrovian SSR
Byelorussia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Auxiliary party:
LDPSU

Interfront movement:
Intermovement
IFWP
Yedinstvo
Unitate-Edinstvo

International support:

Russian SFSR

Russian opposition Opposition republics:
Armenia
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kirghizia
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldavia
Ukraine
Uzbekistan

International support:

European Community

Commanders and leaders

GKChP/Gang of Eight
Gennady Yanayev
Dmitry Yazov
Vladimir Kryuchkov
Valentin Pavlov
Boris Pugo
Oleg Baklanov
Vasily Starodubtsev
Alexander Tizyakov
Republic Leaders
Ayaz Mutallibov
Qahhor Mahkamov
Saparmurat Niyazov

Muammar Gaddafi

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

George H. W. Bush

^a Placed under house arrest at Foros.

Coup failed, pyrrhic Russian SFSR victory

Supporting republics:
Azerbaijan
Pridnestrovian SSR
Byelorussia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Auxiliary party:
LDPSU

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