assassination attempt was better planned and prepared than others, it was led by lieutenant colonel jean-marie bastien thiry, the president with his wife and adjutant were on their way to the airport and they were ambushed in the parisian suburb of ptiklomar. militants from the delta group of the secret military organization oaz shot at the car with machine guns and automatic weapons, they counted 14 holes in it. the passengers miraculously escaped harm, thanks to the design of the presidential limousine, the bullets punctured the wheel. on august 22, 1991, it became finally clear that there was an attempt at a coup d'etat in the ussr failed. the previous evening, the state emergency committee, the state emergency committee , was dissolved. vice president gennady yanayev, the head of this illegal structure, signed the decree on dissolution and was arrested at 6 a.m. following him, almost all the other members of the state emergency committee were detained and sent to matrosskaya tishina. but when they came for him, the minister of internal affairs boris puga shot his wife. in his farewell note, he wrote: he