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Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (
Russian: Валентин Сергеевич Павлов;
September 26,
1937 -
March 30,
2003) was the
Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from January to August
1991. He was one of the leaders of the
August Coup that attempted to depose
Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
Born in
Moscow, Pavlov had been a government economist and head of the
Gosplan's finance department and had been an official in the finance ministry since
1959 when he became Soviet finance minister in
1989. He joined the
Politburo in
1990. After the collapse of the
Ryzkhov government, Pavlov was elected to the new position of
Prime Minister as a compromise candidate. Gorbachev was facing increasing resistance to
perestroika due to the unpopularity of the reforms and the high inflation they caused. The growing political crisis and his opposition to the proposed
New Union Treaty that was to decentralise power in the USSR to the republics influenced him to join the
State Committee for the State of Emergency led by
Gennady Yanayev,
Boris Pugo,
Dmitri Yazov and other hardliners. The Committee launched the
August Coup which attempted to depose Gorbachev on August 19, 1991.
With the collapse of the coup, Pavlov was sacked as Prime Minister on August 22 and then arrested on August 29th. He was released from prison after several months and granted an
amnesty in May
1994.
After his release, Pavlov became head of a
commercial bank and conducted research for several academies. He became a vice president of both the Free Economic Society of Russia and the International Management Academy.
He defended the coup for the rest of his life and, in
2001, expressed his support for Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
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