People of the Revolution and the USSR
Government and administration
Russian Federation state institutions (state)
The last generation 1985–1991
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- Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Борис Николаевич Ельцин The man who climbed onto the tank
- Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov Гавриил Харитонович Попов Moscow's first elected mayor, who told the U.S. ambassador of the coming coup
- Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak Анатолий Александрович Собчак Constitutional Assembly chairman and first elected mayor of Saint Petersburg
- Gennady Eduardovich Burbulis Геннадий Эдуардович Бурбулис The philosopher who proposed the one sentence that declared the Soviet Union dead at Belovezh