Boris Pugo

Details

Instance of

human

Born

19 February 1937

Died

22 August 1991

Place of birth

Tver

Place of death

Moscow

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Boris

Family name

Pugo

Occupation

politician

Position held

Minister of Internal Affairs

Citizenship

Soviet Union

Religion

atheism

Awards

Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Red Star, Order of the Badge of Honour

allegiance

Soviet Union

cause of death

gunshot wound

described by source

Faces of Moscow

educated at

Riga Technical University

languages spoken, written or signed

Russian, Latvian

manner of death

suicide

member of

Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, State Committee on the State of Emergency

member of political party

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

military branch

KGB

military, police or special rank

colonel general, colonel general

name in native language

Boriss Pugo

participant in

27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

place of burial

Troyekurovskoye cemetery

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