What is Gennady Yanayev?
{{Infobox Officeholder | name = Gennady Yanayev | image = G Yanaev.jpg | smallimage = | caption = | office = [[President of the Soviet Union]]<ref>[[:en:August Coup|Acting]]</ref> | term_start = 19 August | term_end = 21 August 1991 | president = [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] | office2 = Vice President of the Soviet Union | term_start2 = 27 December 1990 | term_end2 = 21 August 1991 | president2 = [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] | predecessor2 = [[Anatoly Lukyanov]] (as vice head of state) | successor2 = None (post abolished) | office3 = Chairman of the [[All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions]] | term_start3 = April | term_end3 = July 1990 | predecessor3 = [[Stephan A. Shalaev]] | successor3 = None (post abolished) | birth_date = {{birth date|1937|8|26|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Perevoz, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast|Perevoz]], [[Nizhny Novgorod Oblast|Gorky Oblast]], [[Soviet Union]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2010|9|24|1937|8|26|df=y}} | death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Federation]] | constituency = | party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] | spouse = | children = | profession = | religion = | signature = | footnotes = | native_name = {{No bold|Геннадий Янаев}} | native_name_lang = ru }} '''Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev''' (26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[politician]]. He was the vice president of the Soviet Union,. Yanayev served from 1990 to 1991. Yanayev held several political positions. He served during the rules of [[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev]], [[Leonid Brezhnev|Brezhnev]], [[Yuri Andropov|Andropov]] and [[Konstantin Chernenko|Chernenko]]. With the help of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], Yanayev was the last and only elected Vice President of the Soviet