Kryuchkov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich
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▪ 2008
Soviet intelligence officer
born Feb. 29, 1924, Tsaritsyn, U.S.S.R. [now Volgograd, Russia]
died Nov. 23, 2007, Moscow, Russia
as the hard-line head (1988–91) of the KGB, led the State Committee for the State of Emergency, which in 1991 engineered a coup against Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev in an attempt to forestall the president's reform programs. Kryuchkov studied law and diplomacy, and in 1955 he was posted to the Soviet embassy in Budapest, where, working under Yury Andropov, he helped to suppress the Hungarian uprising. When Andropov was named head of the KGB in 1967, Kryuchkov accompanied him to Moscow. On Aug. 18, 1991, Kryuchkov and seven coconspirators put Gorbachev under house arrest, but three days later the putsch collapsed when Boris Yeltsin rallied support for the government. The plotters were charged with high treason but were freed. The short-lived coup was credited with accomplishing the direct opposite of what Kryuchkov and his allies sought by strengthening Yeltsin at Gorbachev's expense and hastening the breakup of the Soviet Union. Kryuchkov's reputation was partially rehabilitated under Pres. Vladimir Putin, another former KGB official.
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