Soviet Coup of 1991

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

19–21 August 1991

Location

Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Result

Coup failed

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

Belligerents

Soviet Union
(Communist Party of the Soviet Union)

State Committee

Alpha Group
Vympel Group

Supporting republics:
Azerbaijan
Pridnestrovian SSR
Byelorussia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan

LDPSU
International support:

Soviet Union
(Opposition)
Russian SFSR

Government of the RSFSR

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

International support:

European Community

Commanders and leaders

Gennady Yanayev

Vladimir Kryuchkov

Valentin Pavlov

Vasily Starodubtsev

Alexander Tizyakov

Ayaz Mutallibov

Qahhor Mahkamov

Saparmurat Niyazov

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

Supporting republics:
Azerbaijan
Pridnestrovian SSR
Byelorussia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan

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