In August 1991, he supported the coup d'état attempt and was relieved of command after the coup failed. [1 ] After retiring in 1993, Kalinin died on 7 March 2008. [2 ]
Russia participated at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. It sent a total of 190 athletes to participate in all 15 of the Winter Olympic sports.
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Russian communist leader, who served as the formal head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, as well as of the Soviet Union later, from 1919 to 1946.