# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dmitry-yazov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:39:09.802Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/dmitry-yazov"
name: "Dmitry Yazov"
slug: "dmitry-yazov"
description: "Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August coup, four months before the fall of the Soviet Union. Yazov was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union on 28 April 1990 and the only Marshal born in Siberia. At the time of his death on 25 February 2020, he was the last living Marshal of the Soviet Union."
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birthDate: "1924-11-08"
deathDate: "2020-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump