Valentin Sergeevich Pavlov

Pavlov's tombstone

Valentin Pavlov ( Russian Валентин Сергеевич Павлов , scientific. Transliteration Valentin Sergeevič Pavlov *  26. September 1937 in Moscow , † the thirtieth March 2003 ibid) was Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from January to August 1991. He was one of the main actors of the August coup against Mikhail Gorbachev from 1991.

Life

Pavlov studied finance at the Moscow Financial Institute and was an official in the Ministry of Finance from 1959. In 1986 he was Chairman of the Prize Committee in the State Planning Committee. Then he became Minister of Finance from 1989 to 1991. After Nikolai Ryschkow was overthrown as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Prime Minister), he was selected as a compromise candidate for this office on January 11, 1991.

The August coup

As a member of the State Committee for the State of Emergency , he was one of the initiators of the August coup against Gorbachev in August 1991. Your attempt to persuade Gorbachev to resign failed. After three days, the coup, in which Boris Yeltsin stood out as the leader of the resistance, was over. As a result of the conspiracy, Gorbachev's power waned, the CPSU was banned from the RSFSR , and in late 1991 the collapse of the Soviet Union was sealed. After the coup was peacefully suppressed, Pavlov was imprisoned in a Moscow remand prison from 1991 to January 1993; After an amnesty in 1994 he became president of Tschasprombank , from 1995 to 1997 he worked as a consultant for Promstroibank and then for the Russian-American company Business Management Systems .

literature

• Mikhail Gorbachev: The coup. Munich 1991, ISBN 3-570-01408-8 .
• Mikhail Gorbachev: Memories. Siedler, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88680-524-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Valentin Sergejewitsch Pawlow in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Nikolai Ryschkov	Prime Minister of the Soviet Union January 1991 - August 1991	Ivan Silayev