Viktor Barannikov
{{Short description|Soviet-Russian politician and minister (1940–1995)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Viktor Barannikov
| native_name = {{nobold|Виктор Баранников}}
| native_name_lang = ru
| image = File:Viktor Barannikov.jpg
| office = Minister of Security
| term_start = 24 January 1992
| term_end = 27 July 1993
| president = Boris Yeltsin
| predecessor = Himself as Director General of AFB
| successor = Nikolai Golushko (acting),
Office abolished
| office1 = Director General of the Federal Security Agency (AFB)
| term_start1 = 15 January
| term_end1 = 24 January 1992
| president1 = Boris Yeltsin
| predecessor1 = Viktor Ivanenko
| successor1 = Himself as Minister of Security
| office2 = Minister of Interior of the USSR
| term_start2 = 29 August 1991
| term_end2 = 26 December 1991
| president2 = Mikhail Gorbachev
| predecessor2 = Boris Pugo
| successor2 = Office abolished
| office3 = Minister of Interior of the RSFSR
| term_start3 = 8 September 1990
| term_end3 = 13 September 1991
| primeminister3 = Ivan Silayev
| predecessor3 = Vasily Trushin
| successor3 = Andrey Dunayev
| birth_name = Viktor Pavlovich Barannikov
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|10|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Fedosyevka, Pozharsky District, Primorsky Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|07|21|1940|10|20|df=y}}
| death_place = Moscow, Russia
| resting_place = Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
| allegiance = {{flag|Soviet Union}} →
{{flag|Russia|1991}}
| serviceyears = 1961–1993
| rank = General of the Army
}}
Viktor Pavlovich Barannikov ({{langx|ru|Виктор Павлович Баранников}}; 20 October 1940 — 21 July 1995){{cite work|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-viktor-barannikov-1596603.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-viktor-barannikov-1596603.html |archive-date=2022-08-17 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|title= OBITUARY : Viktor Barannikov|author= Jeanne Vronskaya|date=16 August 1995}} was the Soviet Interior Minister in 1991 and Russian Interior Minister from 1992 to 1993.
Career
He was the interior minister of Russian SFSR from September 1990 to September 1991, the interior minister of the USSR after the August Coup against Gorbachev from August 1991 to January 1992. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became the Minister of Security and Home Affairs of the Russian SFSR (December 1991 - January 1992). General Director of the Federal Security Agency of the RSFSR (January 1992). Minister of Security of the Russian Federation (January 1992 - July 1993).
Barannikov initiated the transfer of power under the responsibility of the Interior Ministry to individual republics and ordered the militia to stay away from the political chaos engulfing the capital. He was dismissed by the President at the end of July 1993. As an excuse, an incident involving the Border Guard forces on the Soviet-Afghan border and the wasteful lifestyle of his wife Ludmila, which cost taxpayers around $100,000, was used. During the Russian Constitutional Crisis in September–October 1993, he tried to mediate between Boris Yeltsin and Supreme Soviet, who wanted to drag him to her side by nominating him as the Minister of Security. He was arrested and imprisoned for several months, soon after his release he died of a heart attack on July 22, 1995.
He was close to Boris Birshtein and Birshtein's Seabeco.{{cite news |last=Хлебников|first=Пол (Klebnikov, Paul)|author-link=Paul Klebnikov|url=http://www.compromat.ru/page_10099.htm|title=Как Березовский нажил свой первоначальный капитал. Отрывок из книги "Крестный отец Кремля". Взлет олигарха|trans-title=How Berezovsky made his initial capital. Excerpt from the book "The Godfather of the Kremlin". The rise of the oligarch|language=ru|work=compromat.ru|via=Forbes|date=September 4, 2000|access-date=December 15, 2020}}
Further reading
- Ostrovsky, Alexander (2014). [https://my-files.su/otgo2w Расстрел «Белого дома». Чёрный октябрь 1993 (The shooting of the "White House". Black October 1993)] — М.: «Книжный мир», 2014. — 640 с. ISBN 978-5-8041-0637-0
References
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- {{cite book|last=Klebnikov|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Klebnikov|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vb2ZAAAAIAAJ|title=Godfather of the Kremlin: the Life and Times of Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|date=September 16, 2000|isbn=9780151006212 }}
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External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060225155559/http://www.agentura.ru/english/dosie/fsb/story/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060614194250/http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/russia.htm
- [http://shieldandsword.mozohin.ru/personnel/barannikov_v_p.htm БАРАННИКОВ Виктор Павлович]
- [http://prohistory.info/ru/people/74 Баранников Виктор Павлович. История Современной России]
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Category:People from Primorsky Krai
Category:Defenders of the White House (1993)
Category:People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union
Category:Generals of the army (Russia)
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