The death of Baklanov was announced by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. Details of the death of the first deputy chairman of the USSR Defense Council and the Minister of General Machine Building of the USSR were not disclosed.
“Today, Oleg Dmitrievich Baklanov, who was in charge of the rocket and space industry and headed the USSR Ministry of General Machine Building, passed away,” Rogozin said.
Baklanov was one of eight members of the State Emergency Committee, a body that tried to preserve the USSR by removing President Mikhail Gorbachev from power, whose actions the committee members viewed as unconstitutional. Baklanov was the last living member of this structure.
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