Alexander Rutskoy

military officer

16 September 1947 Proskuriv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

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22 September 1993 – 4 October 1993

Russian politician and former Soviet military officer Alexander Rutskoy's voice recorded September 2013 Problems playing this file? See media help. Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy (Russian: Александр Владимирович Руцкой ; born 16 September 1947) is a Russian politician and a former Soviet military officer, Major General of Aviation (1991). He served as the only Vice President of Russia from 10 July 1991 to 4 October 1993 and as the Governor of Kursk Oblast from 1996 to 2000. In September 1993 Rutskoy was proclaimed the Acting President of Russia following Boris Yeltsin's impeachment which led to the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 where he played one of the key roles.