State Emergency Committee member Alexander Tizyakov died

At the age of 93, a former member of the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP), Alexander Tizyakov, died, according to the website of the Yekaterinburg City Hall.

Farewell to the Soviet political and public figure will be held on January 29. He will be buried at the Shirokorechenskoye cemetery in Yekaterinburg.

Alexander Tizyakov was born in a village in what is now the Republic of Tatarstan. In the early 50s, he worked as a mechanic at the Uralkhimmash plant in Yekaterinburg, and later became an instructor of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the Komsomol and a Komsomol organizer of the Komsomol Central Committee at the All-Union construction site of the Sverdlovsk plant of reinforced concrete structures.

Since 1956, Tizyakov worked as a technologist at the Kalinin Machine-Building Plant (ZiK), and later as the general director of the enterprise (from 1977 to 1991). Under his leadership, more than 20 types of anti-aircraft missile systems were created at ZiK.

In 1988, Tizyakov headed the Association of State Enterprises and Objects of Industry, Construction, Transport and Communications of the USSR, and then became Vice President of the Industrial Union of the USSR.

In 1991, Tizyakov joined the State Emergency Committee. After the failure of the August coup, he was arrested and accused of participating in an anti-state conspiracy. In January 1993, Tizyakov was released, and in February 1994 he was granted amnesty by decree of President Boris Yeltsin.

After his retirement, Tizyakov was a member of the expert council under the Russian government and a member of the technical council under the governor of the Sverdlovsk region.