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Originally Posted by bykinist; 2681101 "
1990 was the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union .
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Year of the collapse of the Soviet Union - 1991 .
December 8, 1991 the head of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine ( the three founding republics of the USSR ) signed an agreement Belovezhskoe and stated that the Soviet Union ceased to exist .
December 25, 1991 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of his tenure as president of the USSR , and 26 December, the Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration on the dissolution of the Soviet Union.