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People associated with the Dissolution of the Soviet Union

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Mikhail Gorbachev

leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)

Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)

Andrei Sakharov

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

Leonid Kravchuk

Ukrainian politician & 1rd President of Ukraine

Levon Ter-Petrosyan

first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998

Algirdas Brazauskas

Lithuanian politician (1932–2010)

Stanisław Šuškievič

Belarusian nuclear physicist and politician (1934—2022)

Abulfaz Elchibey

President of Azerbaijan from 1992 to 1993

Anatoly Sobchak

Russian politician (1937-2000)

Viacheslav Chornovil

Ukrainian activist and politician (1937–1999)

Viačasław Kiebič

Belarusian politician (1936–2020)

Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev

Soviet diplomat (1923-2005)

Estonian politician (1950–2022)

Ukrainian politician (1932–2025)

Russian writer and dissident (1938-1980)

Gennady Burbulis

Russian politician (1945-2022)

Soviet and Estonian politician and diplomat (1931–2024)

Mykolas Burokevičius

Soviet-Lithuanian politician

Änuar Älımjanov

Kazakh writer, Chairman of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan from 1971 to 1979

Moldovan and Romanian politician

British-Iranian anthropologist