Boris Karlowitsch Pugo

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Grave of Pugo and his wife in the Troyekurovo cemetery in Moscow

Boris Karlowitsch Pugo ( Latvian Boriss Pugo ; Russian Борис Карлович Пуго ; born February 19, 1937 in Kalinin (now Tver ); †  August 22, 1991 in Moscow ) was a Latvian - Soviet politician.

Life

Boris Pugo was the son of Kārļis Pugo (1896–1955), who had belonged to the Latvian Red Riflemen , had a career as an apparatchik of the CPSU in the 1920s and 1930s and was involved in the Sovietization of Latvia in 1940 and from 1944 onwards. Boris Pugo studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute and graduated in 1960.

Then worked in various posts in the Komsomol , in the CPSU (member since 1963) and in the government, both in the Latvian SSR and in Moscow . He was, among other things, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Latvian SSR (1969/1970), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the USSR (1970–1974), employee, then First Secretary of the City Committee of the Communist Party in Riga (1975/1976) and finally from 1977 Deputy Chairman and from 1980 Chairman of the KGB in Latvia. From 1984 to 1988 Pugo was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia . In 1988 he became chairman of the party control committee at the Central Committee of the CPSU.

In 1986 Pugo was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU and in 1989 as a candidate for the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. From 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and from 1989 a member of the People's Deputies Congress .

From December 11, 1990 he held the post of Interior Minister of the USSR . As a member of the State Committee for the State of Emergency, he participated in the unsuccessful August coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow . Pugo shot himself in the attempted arrest. Various media outlets, including Time Magazine and the Moscow Times , expressed doubts about this account and suspected murder.

literature

  • Entry: Пуго Борис Карлович (Pugo Boris Karlowitsch). In: Известия ЦК КПСС (Izvestia ZK KPSS), 7 (306), June 1990 (Russian).
  • Mikhail Gorbachev: Memories . Siedler-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88680-524-7 , passim.
  • Grigory Ivanovich Gerasimov: История современной России: поиск и обретение свободы. 1985–2008 годы (Istorija sovremennoi Rossii: poisk i obretenije swobody. 1985–2008 gody). Institut obschtschestvennowo projektirowanija, Moscow 2008, p. 386.
  • Boris Pugo , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 42/1991 from October 7, 1991, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Art. Pugo, Boris Karlovich . In: Martin McCauley: Who's who in Russia since 1900 . Routledge, London 1997, ISBN 0-415-13897-3 , p. 165.
personal data
SURNAME Pugo, Boris Karlowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пуго, Борис Карлович; Pugo, Boriss (Latvian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian Soviet politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalinin, RSFSR, today Tver , Russia
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1991
Place of death Moscow