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Valentin Pavlov
Валентин Павлов
	Valentin Pavlov; Валентин Павлов
11th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
	In office; 14 January 1991 – 22 August 1991
Preceded by	Nikolai Ryzhkov
Succeeded by	Ivan Silayev
Born	27 September 1937; Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	30 March 2003 (aged 65); Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russian

For other uses, see Pavlov (disambiguation).

Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (Russian: Валентин Сергеевич Павлов; September 27, 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 and graduated from the Moscow Finance Institute 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. The same day, Pavlov was hospitalized with the diagnosis of hypertensive crisis.

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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Obituary in The Washington Post archives (requires log-in)
"Valentin Pavlov: Gorbachev's prime minister and figurehead of the 1991 Russian coup," Guardian Unlimited, [1] (October 20, 2003).

Political offices
Preceded by Nikolai Ryzhkov	Prime Minister of the Soviet Union 14 January 1991–22 August 1991	Succeeded by Ivan Silayev