Belovezha Accords

December 8, 1991

Agreement signed by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus that declared the Soviet Union dissolved and founded the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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August 24 – December 26, 1991

Dissolution of the Soviet Union Belovezha and Moscow Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk

Key commanders

Mikhail Gorbachev head of state/government

Boris Yeltsin President of Russia, Led Russia out of the Soviet Union and signed the Belovezha Accords

Leonid Kravchuk President of Ukraine, Signed the Belovezha Accords

Stanislav Shushkevich signatory