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Gennady Yanayev

1937 - 2010

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Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (Russian: Геннадий Иванович Янаев; 26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010) was a Soviet politician and disputed President of the Soviet Union for three days. Yanayev's political career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast. After years in local politics, he rose to prominence as Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, but he also held other lesser posts such as deputy of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gennady Yanayev is the 2,928th most popular politician (down from 2,438th in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 231st in 2019) and the 79th most popular Russian Politician.

Gennady Yanayev is most famous for his attempted coup d'état in the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gennady Yanayev ranks 2,928 out of 19,576. Before him are Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Reccared I, Urukagina, George V of Hanover, and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. After him are Georges Couthon, Emperor Kōan, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Pepin of Italy, Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem, and Ko Yong-hui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Gennady Yanayev ranks 43. Before him are Philip Glass, Gordon Banks, Jared Diamond, David Hockney, Bettina Heinen-Ayech, and Bill Cosby. After him are Robin Warren, Claude Lelouch, Robert Crippen, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Colleen McCullough, and Jacques Santer. Among people deceased in 2010, Gennady Yanayev ranks 30. Before him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Zecharia Sitchin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Francesco Cossiga, Harry Mulisch, and Algirdas Brazauskas. After him are Bruno Cremer, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Jean Simmons, Alice Miller, Dino De Laurentiis, and Miep Gies.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennady Yanayev ranks 253 out of 3,761. Before him are Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Vasily Stalin (1921), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Natalia Goncharova (1881), and Sergey Shoygu (1955). After him are Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Alexandre Kojève (1902), and Vasily Blyukher (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Gennady Yanayev ranks 79. Before him are Viktor Zubkov (1941), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Mykola Azarov (1947), and Sergey Shoygu (1955). After him are Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), and Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024).

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